New Mexico News

New Mexico's health insurance companies are going to have to come up with more money to cover about 1,500 critically ill people because the federal government has reneged on a guarantee to pay for their care, according to Jason Sandel, a board member of the New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool.

Silver City's own Mimbres Region Arts Council was named as one of the recipients of the 2013 NM Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts: Governor Susana Martinez and the New Mexico Arts Commission have announced the seven artists and art supporters who will be recipients of the 2013 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

More New Mexico residents will be hitting the road this summer and fall to destinations in the Land of Enchantment, according to the 2013 Garrity Perception Survey.

On May 6, the New Mexico State University Board of Regents selected Garrey Carruthers to lead our great university.

Jack Volpato says the worst kind of politics led to his father being convicted of murder in one of New Mexico's most famous cases.

A huge aluminum yucca sculpture, appropriately titled "Aluminum Yucca," in the east mountains of Albuquerque along Interstate 40 and old Route 66 recently marked its 10th year of existence, reported the Albuquerque Journal .

The record setting PowerBall jackpot up for grabs this weekend is at $600 million and counting with New Mexicans doing their part to fatten up that jackpot.

A couple of weeks ago, in a partisan jab, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson accused Texas Sen.

The TV drama " Longmire " garnered the biggest TV ratings for the A&E cable network in the first TV season 2012.

Family members have confirmed a New Mexican working as a military contractor was among 15 people killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Thursday.

In a rare bipartisan moment, something significant happened last week in the U.S. Senate, and New Mexico's two U. S. senators, Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, helped to make it happen by voting to end the chaos and misunderstanding surrounding the sales tax and online purchases.

Uranium Resources, Inc. today announced that it is focusing its technical resources at its existing offices in Colorado and reducing corporate overhead spend by closing its offices in Albuquerque, Crownpoint and Grants, New Mexico.

New Mexico is receiving a half million dollars from a Denver-based philanthropic group to expand programs that allow students to receive an associate degree from a college while attending high school.

Democrat Leslie Endean-Singh says jobs will be the centerpiece of her campaign for Congress in New Mexico's 2nd District.

Dr. Barry Ramo has made New Mexicans aware of public health issues for more than 20 years.

Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujn have joined other Western lawmakers in introducing legislation to protect New Mexico's mineral royalties from the effects of the federal sequester.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed physicist Ernest Moniz, pictured, as the new Secretary of Energy, the head of the Department of Energy, which oversees New Mexico's national labs.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum announces the opening of the exhibition "Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land." The exhibition, which opens today, May 17, 2013 at the museum in Santa Fe, highlights O'Keeffe's paintings of New Mexico's churches, crosses, folk art and Native American subjects, created between 1929 and ... (more)

Jack Volpato says the worst kind of politics led to his father being convicted of murder in one of New Mexico's most famous cases.

Order the Yakisoba Platter at Teriyaki Chicken House and treat yourself to an East-meets-Southwest flavor combination on teriyaki and green chile.