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‘My people here don’t have the money,’ he says, worried that the state underestimated how costly the Black Fire damage is

Local officials still don’t understand how to get acequias money for recovery, unable to afford repairs until state financial aid is confirmed

The police chief in New Mexico's largest city wants to address an increase in shootings by his officers by better defining Albuquerque's policy on the use of less-lethal force.

At one point in early September, Las Vegas had enough clean water to last the town of about 14,000 residents only 21 days.

The state set aside about $3 million months ago for small, rural counties damaged by the Black Fire, New Mexico’s second-largest wildfire in history. But after miscommunication and confusion, not one county has gotten a single dollar.

Graduate workers at New Mexico’s two biggest higher education institutions overwhelmingly approved their first-ever collective bargaining agreements with their bosses.

Attorneys for New Mexico groups call confidentiality maneuvers a ‘sideshow’

Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department seeking to ensure access for prison inmates to medication that reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms or cravings.

While human-caused climate change continues to strain New Mexico’s water resources, state officials say they want lawmakers to dedicate $8.25 million for a 50-year water plan that’s still being drafted.

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.