New Mexico News

SANTA FE >> Governor Susana Martinez announced that fatal alcohol-related crashes on New Mexico's roads and highways decreased by 13.7 percent from 2012 to 2013, demonstrating that the state's increased measures to make the roads safer are working.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Mora Land Grant Association is joining Mora County Commission to keep fracking away.

SANTA FE >> Officials with the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency remind communities, tribal entities, and state agencies that March 21, 2014, is the deadline for submitting a Notice of Interest to participate in the statewide Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

Pico's Mex-Mex will open its new location on Kirby Drive Thursday in the former site of Ninfa's/Maggie Rita's.

If you drive up or down Lower Greenville Avenue with any frequency, you've likely noticed Palapas Seafood Bar slowly taking shape next to a tire shop over the past few months.

A pedestrian bridge is about to get some work done after it was nearly destroyed by a brush fire last June.

What if you woke up and found out the "recession" means that the number of your unemployed friends and neighbors in your home state, New Mexico, rocketed up an astounding 6.3% in one single, solitary, sad and sorry day? You won't hear any tv or radio reports or read any news articles framing the crisis in these terms, but I actually went to the raw ... (more)

SANTA FE >> A New Mexico Department of Health report confirms adults and children from counties in the southeast region of the state continue to be more likely to visit the emergency department or be hospitalized for asthma than adults and children from other regions of the state.

A New Mexico computer store says crooks have come up with a new way to take residents for a ride.

The program relies on revenue from the state lottery, and cuts loomed because lottery proceeds haven't kept pace with increases in college tuition.

CARLSBAD >> State Rep. Cathrynn N. Brown will run for re-election, seeking a third term in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

As the people charged with bringing new jobs to New Mexico and Albuquerque pull out the stops to lure Tesla and its so-called "gigafactory," two economic reports show just how badly the jobs are needed.

UNM says that its School of Medicine's rural medicine program is ranked second in the nation in the upcoming issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools" for 2015.

For more than 120 years our people, the Chiricahua Apaches, now the Fort Sill Apache Tribe have sought to return to our New Mexico homeland.

All 70 House seats are up for election this year and 10 incumbents - five Democrats and five Republicans - aren't seeking re-election.

As the Obama administration emphasizes the March 31 deadline to enroll in Obamacare health plans, some states running their own health insurance exchanges are weighing an extension of the enrollment period because of struggles signing people up for coverage.

Public health organizations have used text messaging for years to improve pre- and post-natal care, but now the operators of the state health information exchange in New Mexico are using the same basic mobile telephone technology to try to boost health insurance enrollment under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .

The decision by Mexico's regulator to declare that America Movil is dominant in the market last week is credit negative for the company according to Moody's because they alone will face stricter regulatory oversight that will pressure revenues and operating margins although they will remain dominant players for years.

The Drury Hotel chain has spent the last couple of years transforming the old St. Vincent Hospital into one of its newest properties - a luxury hotel with almost 200 rooms.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by chairman of APCO Worldwide's Global Political Strategies group, former Governor of New Mexico, the U.S., Bill Richardson.