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Prison is not an environment conducive to the type of development and change children need, said Eric Alexander. That needs to change, advocates say.

Prison is not an environment conducive to the type of development and change children need, said Eric Alexander. That needs to change, advocates say.

A Native American tribe has been granted title to a portion of a national preserve in northern New Mexico following a yearslong court battle against the federal government, a ruling that could provide hope to other tribes seeking to regain rights to their traditional homelands.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is urging legislators to reevaluate the magnitude of proposed tax changes that would forgo $1 billion in annual state government income each year.

New Mexico's Democratic-led Legislature sent an annual spending plan Wednesday to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for consideration that would increase annual general fund spending by 14% to underwrite tuition-free college, bolster rural rural health care networks and expand no-pay day care and prekindergarten.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill Friday that makes it a crime to store firearms in places that children could access.

A bill to expand voting rights and accessibility is on its way to the governor’s desk for her signature.

On a windy Saturday in Santa Fe, lawmakers inside the Roundhouse discussed and passed bills on how to spend a historic $9.6 billion budget.

A week before the Second Chance bill got through its final committee in the Legislature, another branch of government reaffirmed the importance of young people’s capacity for change.

A small swath of the valley is restored to resemble when the Rio Grande flourished, but as drought changes the land, it’ll take more work — and water.