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New Mexico is studying a possible I-27 route across about 92 miles of U.S. 64 and 87 from the Texas state line to I-25 in Raton.
“That’s a really bad hangover,” said state Sen. Jay Block, a Republican from Rio Rancho, of waking up to Democrat Deb Haaland as governor-elect. Block has a bleak forecast for the next four years. “I think it’s going to look like Biff’s ‘Back to the Future II,’” he said, referring to the sequel’s alternate timeline where the villain, Biff Tannen, runs a lawless Hill Valley from his own casino.
By Kevin Hendricks — Voters in this year’s elections took away the next governor’s New pocket veto and gave the nation’s last volunteer legislators a salary. Voters approved all four constitutional amendments on the ballot Tuesday by wide margins, with support ranging from 63% to 75%, according to unofficial results. The amendments end the governor’s pocket veto, put legislators on salary for the first time, open general election ballots to school races and bond questions and create nominating committees for university regents.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The League of Women Voters published its voter guide earlier this year, but the section discussing Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District Larry Marker did not show his photo, instead showing Taos County Commission candidate Nehemiah Vasquez. The League of Women Voters acknowledged the mistake last Thursday, saying it […]
Two tunnels sit in a narrow New Mexico canyon, cut straight through rock that’s been standing for more than a billion years. The Rio Guadalupe races through the canyon below them. The walls press in close. Workers blasted these openings in the 1920s so logging trains could get through,...
A legal battle is brewing on the Navajo Nation after voters seem to have selected Crystalyne Curley as their next president. Curley, who serves as speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, will be the first woman to hold the position, though unofficial results released late Tuesday indicate she received 50.9% of the vote, Curley’s opponent, attorney Justin Jones, said at his watch party he would not concede and he intends to pursue legal challenges to the outcome.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham welcomed Governor-elect Deb Haaland at a news conference Friday. The pair said they will begin a smooth transition of power following Haaland’s election. “She has done a phenomenal job on lifting so many New Mexicans out of poverty, children out of poverty. Those are all things […]
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Wednesday that the state will join a new federal scholarship tax program created by the Trump administration, a move New Mexico teachers’ unions are describing as a “betrayal.”
New Mexico leaders said more than 50,000 children now get free childcare statewide, with 18,000 joining after the program went universal one year ago.
Last night, the 2026 midterm election results delivered plenty of historic firsts. It was a particularly powerful night for Native American representation: Democrat Deb Haaland became the first Native American woman to be elected as Governor of New Mexico, while Peggy Flanagan—the current lieutenant governor of Minnesota—became the first Native woman to win the U.S. Senate seat in her state. (And there could even be a third victory for the Indigenous community today: at the time of publishing this story, Alaska’s Mary Peltola is currently leading the race for a Senate seat, too.)
SANTA FE – New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will welcome New Mexico Governor-elect Deb Haaland to begin planning for a smooth and productive transition of power following Haaland’s election as the 33rd governor of New Mexico on Tuesday, November 3rd. WHO: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor-elect Deb...
New World screwworm cases have tripled in New Mexico, prompting expanded infested zones and tighter animal movement restrictions across the Southwest. The post New Mexico screwworm cases triple as restrictions expand appeared first on AGDAILY .
You might not know it from scanning the headlines, but New Mexico has reduced poverty at triple the national rate while bucking a national affordability crisis and federal program cuts that make life more difficult for working families. New U.S. Census Bureau data reflects the Lujan Grisham administration’s success in...
New Mexico seniors on Presbyterian’s Senior Care Medicare Advantage HMO plans lose them on Dec. 31, and Presbyterian Health Plan will not offer them in 2027. Medicare’s fall enrollment period runs through Dec. 7, and a second window for people whose plan is not renewed runs from Dec. 8 through Feb. 28. Which Presbyterian plans […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CN) — A toxic chromium plume spreading from Los Alamos National Laboratory under Pueblo de San Ildefonso is a “runaway train,” the chairman of the New Mexico Legislature’s radioactive materials committee warned Thursday. Los Alamos National Laboratory representatives updated the New Mexico Radioactive and...
MESILLA, N.M. (KVIA) -- The race for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District is competitive, as Democrats seek to hold their seats and gain three additional seats to take a majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans are entering midterms with a 218-214 majority in the House, with two seats...
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) – Former New Mexico House Majority Leader and former APS board member Sheryl Williams Stapleton will have to wait several more months to learn her sentence following her federal conviction. A jury earlier this year found Williams Stapleton guilty of fraud and money laundering charges connected to a scheme involving funds directed to a robotics company owned by Joseph Johnson.
The campaigns are over, the ballots have largely been counted, and Southern New Mexico's voters have delivered a series of decisions that will shape government from the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office to the halls of Congress. Tuesday's general election brought a new governor to New Mexico, returned the...
By Terri Harber, The Roswell Daily Record — Chaves County voters had a raft of other ballot items presented to them for the 2026 General Election, which ended on Tuesday, Election Day. The total countywide voter turnout was 15,569, or 39.95% as per New Mexico State of Secretary’s website....
