James Kenney is now earning $168,480 a year, or just over $12,000 more than the other Cabinet secretaries, the majority of whom are paid $156,000 a year.
Managers at both the lab and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant failed to screen out the titanium, which is on WIPP's list of prohibited materials.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and legislative leaders remain in a stalemate over which branch of government has the authority to appropriate federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Valle del Sol announced in early April it would depart from New Mexico on July 30. This left patients wondering where they would receive services.
James Kenney is now earning $168,480 a year, or just over $12,000 more than the other Cabinet secretaries, the majority of whom are paid $156,000 a year.
The complaint was filed May 5 in state District Court against city records custodian Cynthia Whiting, the department's public information officer, and city paralegal Julie Kenny.
Judy “Georgie” Lucero, owner of Georgie's Men's Hair Cutting, stands outside her shop on Monday.
The ads are meant to increase awareness about an ugly blight — trash — overtaking the state's highways and byways.
In all, the state has seen 4,106 people die from the coronavirus.
The legal document states $40.8 million will be due June 13. The resort's owner said he will pay back the amount due by that date.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed Monday it is teaming up with the Ladder Ranch for the project.
The Wall Street Journal-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination tracker showed New Mexico in fifth place for adults who have been fully vaccinated.
Program will aims to help children learn colors, numbers and reading before starting school.
Science on the Hill
Artificial intelligence helps solve the most complex problems beneath our feet
Predicting earthquakes, removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and conserving water in New Mexico are only a few of the advances artificial intelligence has helped us accomplish.
The Affordable Housing Department's budget will increase by around $4.7 million, or 155.5 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.
ALBUQUERQUE — A Mesquite man has been arrested in connection with the death girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter last month, according to Doña Ana County Sheriff’s officials.
1st congressional District Special election
Race for Haaland's former seat being hard-fought
Democrat Melanie Stansbury is vying for the seat against Republican state Sen. Mark Moores, Libertarian Chris Manning and Aubrey Dunn, a former Republican and state land commissioner who is running as an independent.
Life support for Clayton and other small towns in Eastern New Mexico may soon be coming from an unlikely source: marijuana.
If some elements of a DWI traffic stop remain unchanged as the state enters an era of marijuana legalization, other key components remain unknown.
A twice-yearly gathering of bishops and archbishops is expected to take up whether political leaders and people in the public eye who support abortion rights should be allowed to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion.
"The constant financial stress on top of having to work to support them and find child care and then go to school so that you can get a better job is so hard, especially on single mothers," said Sabrina Varela, 28.
Deputies and members of an FBI task force seized about 18,000 pills along with meth, heroin and other substances.
Like Luhan’s memoir, the novel is also about an intense relationship between two artists, although Cusk has made the Lawrence figure a painter, not a writer.
The moratorium the commission placed on disconnection for customers of small utilities and rural electric co-ops expired Tuesday.
ALBUQUERQUE — The staff of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission is calling for a hearing on a proposed merger between the state’s largest electric utility and a…
Although a lawsuit to preserve the mural is still working its way through the legal system, supporters acknowledged it likely will come down.
Santa Fe police were trying to determine who stole a car belonging to the former CEO of Meow Wolf and took it for a joyride before abandoning the vehicle on a side street.
"As people drive up to the Enchanted Circle or Peñasco or through Española, we want them — if they drive EVs — to have charging stations," Kit Carson Electric Cooperative CEO Luís Reyes Jr. said.
A Santa Fe man led officers on a high-speed chase Saturday that reached 125 mph before he was arrested, New Mexico State Police said.
"I think our democracy is under siege," said John House, president of the New Mexico branch of nationwide nonprofit RepresentUs.
Court filings allege school officials failed to prevent abuse and retaliated against people who reported misconduct.
Santa Fe dealerships say customers seem eager to buy what's on the lot and willing to pay higher prices.
The United Kingdom Olympic triathlon team used the pool, which has been closed to the public since December, for the past four weeks.
Violet Crown reopened to the general public Friday — the first cinema in town to do so.
New Mexico State Police are working with the state Office of the Medical Investigator to identify the body, Lt. Mark Soriano wrote in an email.
As with the lab's other off-campus sites, no hazardous work would be done there.
Candidates will receive additional time, but an official deadline has not yet been approved.
Along with a charge of first-degree murder, Anthony Trujillo, 28, faces counts of shooting at or from a motor vehicle, shooting at an inhabited dwelling or occupied building and possession of a firearm by a felon.
As of Friday, 50.1 percent of eligible Santa Fe County residents were fully vaccinated.
The case against releasing Jesse Mascareno-Haidle, an 18-year-old accused of a string of burglaries, is the latest challenge by law enforcement to New Mexico's no-money bail system.
The nonstop, public charter flights will travel to Dallas and Austin in Texas and Hawthorne-Los Angeles and Carlsbad-San Diego in California.
Officials with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs announced Thursday that the $395,000 project involves the Lincoln Historic Site.
Officials said water levels at many state park lakes are extremely low and the ramp closures are in place to address public safety concerns.
Customers would pay about $10.80 a month more to participate in the solar program, but would get a credit for the avoided energy costs from using traditional fossil fuels.
The decision to abandon use of the app came after a Searchlight New Mexico report prompted heavy scrutiny of CYFD's use of it, including scheduled and manual deletions of some encrypted messages.
People are ready or required to leave the house more, and training for pandemic pets is in high demand.
The proposed rule, expected to take effect in 2022, would reduce volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides — known as ozone precursors — by an estimated 260 million pounds a year. It also would cut methane pollution by an estimated 851 million pounds yearly.
Alexis Martinez Johnson ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives last year.
The judge ruled the defendant has a right to to be tried in Rio Arriba County, where the shooting occurred, rather than scheduling the trial earlier in another location.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas gave the go-ahead Thursday to the Texas arm of the proposal between PNM Resources and Connecticut-based Avangrid.
The state charter school will pay Santa Fe Public Schools around $325,000 a year to continue renting the campus.
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