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As New Mexico surpassed 8,000 deaths from COVID, a new, highly contagious subvariant has reared its had in the land of enchantment. The new omicron BA.5 subvariant has not only arrived, but is now responsible for 30 percent of cases — and that number is growing quickly.

The Albuquerque police chief is calling on the state's attorney general to review a teenage boy's death in a house fire, which broke out after authorities tried to arrest a man inside.

Tribal leaders and advocates leading education reform in New Mexico launched their campaign to ask voters to support a ballot initiative that would take more money from the state’s $25.5 billion Land Grant Permanent Fund and spend it on public school students, including those in pre-K.

New Mexico voters set the current burden of proof prosecutors face in a 2016 amendment to the state constitution.

New Mexico voters set the current burden of proof prosecutors face in a 2016 amendment to the state constitution.

Informed by the years long pandemic, a panel looking to shape the big picture of public health in New Mexico is zeroing in on knocking down barriers to care and health, tackling systemic racism and climate change.

A small, former alfalfa farm in Socorro, New Mexico is now shifting to growing hundreds of cannabis plants to help find and identify certain strains that grow best in the state’s heat.

The Navajo Nation Veterans Administration was formally recognized by the head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for being the first tribal nation program to receive accreditation to help veterans submit federal benefits claims directly to the VA.

A recent survey from the Guttmacher Institute documented an 8% rise in the number of abortions performed in the U.S. from 2017 to 2020, reversing what had been a nearly three-decade decline in women opting to terminate their pregnancies.

The rains washed over Old Town Albuquerque and brought hundreds of people to Tiguex Park to share anger and grief at federal reproductive rights taken away earlier in the day by a Supreme Court ruling.