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More than $1 billion in additional compensation for victims of the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire was approved by the United States House of Representatives as part of a 4,100-page spending package that President Joe Biden has now signed.

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ProPublica has once again selected the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and Caleb Bedillion to be part of its Local Reporting Network.

A proposal in the upcoming legislative session could result in more scrutiny of New Mexico’s prisons, but the person in charge of the prison system said this week that the oversight already in place is more than enough.

Community organizers in Albuquerque say they have collected more than 200 unwanted guns at the latest buyback event.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday announced two job fairs next week to find locals able to help the agency administer a multi-billion-dollar program aimed to compensate victims of the biggest fire in New Mexico history.

Proposal in upcoming session would reduce time a person can be in solitary, fix gaps in reporting practice and expand restrictions on use of the practice.

The Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony, or STOP Act, makes it a crime punishable by fines and a year and a day in jail

Advocates are optimistic the New Mexico Legislature will change a law during the upcoming legislative session to allow nurses to administer methadone, a barrier they say is making it harder to help those with opioid addictions, especially in rural areas.

Court records show a plot to enact revenge for a fight during a football game last month resulted in a shootout between students from rival universities in New Mexico that left one person dead and a basketball player injured.