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With heavy rain expected through Thursday, the State of New Mexico says it's activated its emergency center ahead of ant...
09/22/2026

With heavy rain expected through Thursday, the State of New Mexico says it's activated its emergency center ahead of anticipated flash flooding.

The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management activated Emergency Operation Center ahead of flash flooding.

A task force studying the impact of screens in classrooms on Tuesday recommended New Mexico education officials consider...
09/22/2026

A task force studying the impact of screens in classrooms on Tuesday recommended New Mexico education officials consider issuing guidelines that would eliminate screen time for students from kindergarten through second grade.

A legislative task force recommended to New Mexico education officials to eliminate screen time for students in kindergarten to second grade.

NM lawmakers today heard about the state's ongoing housing and homelessness struggles, and some possible models for impr...
09/22/2026

NM lawmakers today heard about the state's ongoing housing and homelessness struggles, and some possible models for improvement in Las Cruces.

New Mexico still struggles with housing affordability, uneven regional growth and increasing homelessness, according to a new state report.

A total of 43 wells in the Cieneguilla and La Cienega communities in Santa Fe County showed ‘forever chemical’ contamina...
09/22/2026

A total of 43 wells in the Cieneguilla and La Cienega communities in Santa Fe County showed ‘forever chemical’ contamination in recent tests, Santa Fe County announced on Monday. With the aquifer underneath the communities contaminated, a not-for-profit company received federal funds to explore alternative public water supply options.

A total of 43 wells in the Cieneguilla and La Cienega communities in New Mexico showed PFAS contamination, NMED officials announced Monday.

In a new lawsuit in federal court, former Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard accused the State Ethic...
09/21/2026

In a new lawsuit in federal court, former Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard accused the State Ethics Commission of violating his civil rights with a 2025 lawsuit it filed against him.

The New Mexico State Ethics Commission asked a federal judge to toss much of a lawsuit from former WNMU President Joseph Shepard.

A statewide commission that evaluates judges is recommending that New Mexico voters retain nearly every sitting judge wh...
09/21/2026

A statewide commission that evaluates judges is recommending that New Mexico voters retain nearly every sitting judge who will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.

A commission that evaluates New Mexico judges recommended that voters retain 41 of them in the upcoming Nov. 3 general election.

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications a...
09/21/2026

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, called Trump's ban an "outrageous attack on the First Amendment."

WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump has barred from entering the White House filed a lawsuit against the administration on Monday. CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO wrote in a joint statement the suit is intended “to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the pri...

Source NM spoke with New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and his Republican challenger, Las Cruces-based attorney Sa...
09/21/2026

Source NM spoke with New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and his Republican challenger, Las Cruces-based attorney Samuel Kane, to discuss their priorities for the New Mexico Department of Justice ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

Incumbent New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, faces Republican challenger Samuel Kane in the Nov. 3 general election.

In a Thursday filing with no further comment, Justice Neil Gorsuch denied the minor political party’s appeal of lower co...
09/18/2026

In a Thursday filing with no further comment, Justice Neil Gorsuch denied the minor political party’s appeal of lower court rulings that prevented party Chair Bob Perls and candidate Michael Vigil from appearing as candidates for the U.S. Senate and Office of the State Auditor, respectively.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied the New Mexico Forward Party's appeal to field two statewide candidates on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.

New Mexico’s effort to require manufacturers to label consumer products that contain so-called ‘forever chemicals’ infri...
09/18/2026

New Mexico’s effort to require manufacturers to label consumer products that contain so-called ‘forever chemicals’ infringes on commercially protected speech, according to a preliminary injunction issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Margaret Strickland.

New Mexico’s rule for manufacturers to label consumer products that contain PFAS infringes on commercially protected speech, U.S. judge says

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