New Mexico News

Today, Governor Susana Martinez announced that the State of New Mexico is prepared and ready to assist the State of Oklahoma in the ongoing relief and recovery projects following the deadly tornadoes that hit the area on Monday.

A Santa Fe landlord's murder trial is underway in a case stemming from the shooting of a tenant and her daughter's boyfriend during a January 2012 rent dispute.

New Mexicans have never been asked to vote on gay marriage, but if they were asked today the results would be pretty close.

Although Mayor Tommy Roberts, City Manager Rob Mayes, Councilwoman Gayla McCulloch and Councilman Dan Darnell supported the wage decision, Councilman Jason Sandel and Councilwoman Mary Fischer said the decision puts the city and its employees in worse shape for years to come.

Commercial real estate leaders gathered in Albuquerque Monday to hear three panelists discuss the educational and economic picture in New Mexico and how it can be improved.

A New Mexico judge appears poised to rule that the state can continue to pay for private school students' textbooks.

In particular, the specialty beer for the Las Cruces restaurant just got wider distribution as the Las Cruces City Council unanimously approved the issuance of a small brewer's liquor license at Monday's council meeting, at City Hall.

Several generations of the Moses family gather with the WNMU President's award, a replica artifact of a Mimbres water gourd, created by Silver City artists Pierre Nichols, a student of the Mimbres Culture, which native to Southwest New Mexico, and presented to the family by university president Dr.

Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent.

The Red Cross may deploy volunteers to the area as early as tomorrow morning. For those looking for family members Regional CEO, Rahim Balsara said there is help on the web.

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.