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Both are reasonably well-funded, with Laura Montoya having raised $189,000 and Harry Montoya about $76,000

The House of Representatives rejected a bill Thursday on a tie vote that was aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the Legislative session, the House of Representatives rejected a bill on a tie vote during the early morning hours on Thursday aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. The House voted 33-33 for the Clean Fuel Standard Act following several hours of debate after […]

This week on New Mexico in Focus, state leaders share their 2022 budget plans ahead of the start of the 30-day legislative session next week. The Line opinion panel also dives into what could be included in a final package and what the spending...

New Mexico is inching closer to spending nearly half of the roughly $1.1 billion in remaining federal relief money given to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act passed earlier this year.

Lawmakers on Sunday replaced a map that a tribal coalition spent months working on to find consensus. A Senate committee voted instead to approve an amended plan re-drawing the New Mexico Senate’s voting districts that was introduced just before the meeting.

(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant) Wendel Hann ducks into his trailer to fetch an order for a customer. Hann and his Gila River Ranch meat products are a fixture at the Silver City Farmers’ Market, which operates every Saturday year-round in a covered area at 907 N. Pope St., just north of College Avenue on the north end of downtown. The demand for his American Grassfed Association-certified meats is ※almost more than I can handle,” said Wendell Hann, owner of the Gila River Ranch in t...

Graphics New Mexico law enables early, out-of-state school enrollment for military kids 04.20.2021 10 On April 6, 2021, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed N.M. Senate Bill 272 into law, allowing incoming military students to register in New Mexico school districts before they physically arrive in the state, effective with school year 2021-2022. Students can enroll in schools when their sponsors receive PCS orders. LEAVE A COMMENT

AZTEC — A house memorial focused on infrastructure investment for Native American communities received unanimous support from the House State Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee. The house memorial, known as Native American Infrastructure Investment, would encourage New Mexico’s congressional delegation to introduce legislation that would assist the Bureau of Indian Affairs with efforts like expanding infrastructure accessibility, reducing poverty rates, increasing economic o...

Anti-diversion bill heads to House Written by Geoffrey Plant on February 24, 2021 With the majority Democratic members of two key state legislative committees recommending in hearings over consecutive Saturdays that a House bill to sideline the Gila River diversion group “do pass,” the future of the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project has never looked so imperiled. As the bill, titled “Water Trust Board Projects and N.M. Unit F...