New Mexico News

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.

The New Mexico Supreme Court is considering whether thousands of state workers covered by union contracts are owed back pay and raises totaling millions of dollars.

A legislative audit report says New Mexicans could face trouble and delays in trying to see a doctor or other providers as demand grows for medical services from an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law.

The main topic of discussion at the Silver City Town Council meeting Tuesday, May 14, was on the resolution to adopt the Silver City Greenways and Big Ditch Master Plan.

Just about every car driving on Albuquerque's streets is supposed to have an emissions test, a two-year certificate that the vehicle isn't polluting too much.

When Jenn Wohletz moved from the Midwest to New Mexico, she discovered Mexican food -- make that New Mexican food -- at Little Anita's, and she got hooked on both red and green chile.

The economy has improved in much of the country, but not in New Mexico, a state executive told legislators on Tuesday.

Bill Olson is not that guy. With a neat brown beard and a fondness for western shirts and jackets, even the occasional bolo tie, he's the quintessential water nerd.

Commissioners in attendance: Jimmy Sandoval, Ernest Dominguez Jr., Dora Salinas McTigue, Robert Lumpkin, Mayor Amiel Curnutt and City Manager Doug Powers.

January 7-10, 2013 - Schmidt travels to North Korea with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson on what is described as a humanitarian mission.