Thursday, September 21, 2023

State Governors from Arizona, New Mexico Seek Stronger Economic Ties with Taiwan

Governors from the Southwestern United States are pursuing stronger business ties with Taiwan in hopes of attracting new foreign investments and jobs to their landlocked states. Trade missions …

Basement Films Finds New Academic Home

After weeks of facing down the prospect of homelessness and even the possible dissolution of its collection, nonprofit arts organization Basement Films has managed to secure a new home here in …

New Mexico News
Council Watch: Brief Meeting, Big Words
Affordable housing was the hot topic at Monday’s notably short Albuquerque City Council meeting. With no real action items on the agenda, councilors spent time getting caught up on affordable …
Federal Authorities Announce Plan to Safeguard Sacred Tribal Lands in New Mexico's Sandoval County
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In an effort to safeguard sacred tribal lands, federal authorities announced a plan Monday to protect more than 4,000 acres (1,619 hectares) within the Placitas area in New …
New Mexico Governor Amends Order Suspending Right to Carry Firearms to Focus on Parks, Playgrounds
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday narrowed an order that broadly suspended the right to carry firearms in and around Albuquerque to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where …
East Mountain Property Owner Discovers Old Dynamite

An East Mountains land owner found a 50-pound box of dynamite on his property recently and called in the Albuquerque Police bomb squad to handle the issue.

Sandias Project Aims to Make Forest Safer
The next step in an ongoing project to improve the health of the Cibola National Forest within the Sandia Ranger District has begun. These steps will include the removal of hazard trees up …
Rundown: Public Health Order: Take II
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took another crack last week at crafting a public health order aimed at combating gun violence. The original order banned firearms in public, which spurred widespread and, …
New Mexico Official Orders Insurance Companies to Expand Timely Access to Behavioral Health Services
 New Mexico's top insurance regulator on Tuesday ordered health insurance companies to expand timely access to behavioral health services in response to the governor recently declaring a public …
Family files lawsuit after police fatally shot New Mexico man while at wrong address
The family of a man shot and killed by police in New Mexico after they responded to the wrong address is suing the city and three officers. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court …
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Digital Meets Ancient

Chilean artist and Corrales resident, Alexander Sutulov is on a mission to convey what he believes are timeless messages embedded in pictographic images drawn over several millennia by the Indigenous …

Touring Turquoise

Just outside Albuquerque’s city limits lies a stretch of highway that offers nearly year-round stunning views and for two weekends in September art collectors—or just art lovers—can enjoy the …

MoGro to Grow More

As free healthy school meals make their way this year to all K-12 public school students in New Mexico, food insecurity isn't slowing down. With pandemic aid programs ending, individuals and families …
Community

American Idol Auditions Coming to State Fair

The New Mexico State Fair and American Idol are teaming up to find the best voices in New Mexico through a local audition.

Project Feed the Hood Empowers International District’s Youth

“My mom always told me that she needed me to be able to provide for the family when I became an adult. I took that as I need to be able to meet the very basics and the very basics are food and …

Apple helps Santa Fe, Native students expand digital skills

This fall, Santa Fe Community College will offer the Santa Fe region new learning opportunities around coding and creativity, with the support of Apple’s Community Education Initiative. …
Albuquerque
Update: As rain turned to hail on the windows of a courtroom in Albuquerque on Wednesday, Sept. 13, a federal judge told a tense and silent audience that he decided to temporarily suspend public …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some demonstrators defiantly carried holstered handguns on their hips in a Tuesday rally by gun-rights advocates, protesting Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's surprise order …
Gov. Michelle Lujan riled up everyone from gun owners to run of the mill fans of the Constitution—and made national headlines at the same time—after she issued an executive order that bans both …
Days after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a public health emergency that, in part, bans firearms in public—both openly carried and concealed—a few hundred armed protestors descended on the …
Commentary
Last week energy professionals met to talk about “building an advanced energy ecosystem in New Mexico.” Conference participants came from industry, the labs, government, unions and education. …
Twenty years ago, two key pieces of legislation were enacted in New Mexico. First was the Concealed Handgun Carry Act, which was introduced in the Senate by a Democrat, and passed both chambers with …
New Mexico
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world's history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and …
New Mexico's top election official met with federal prosecutors for 2020 special counsel probe By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top state election …
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is eligible for $25 million in federal funding to plug and clean up abandoned oil and natural gas wells under a new phase of an initiative aimed at lingering …
National
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Known as the Zorro Ranch, a high-desert property once owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been sold after two years on the market. An attorney for Epstein’s …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 …
Cannabis
Illicit Pot: More Dangerous Than You Thought
A new study highlights one of the most important reasons that cannabis consumers should always buy state-regulated pot. It found that over 90 percent of illicit cannabis contained pesticides that …
Harvest Soon
Croptober is just around the corner, and all across New Mexico, producers and home-growers are preparing to reap the rewards of all their hard work. After all these months of waiting and stressing …
Anti-Pot Group Tattles On Bank
A group dedicated to fighting cannabis legalization tried to narc on Wells Fargo over a plan between the banking giant and the state of Maryland to process cannabis taxes, presumably in an attempt to …
Feds: Move Pot To Schedule III
The nation’s top health agency has recommended that marijuana be reclassified as a less dangerous drug on the list of controlled substances. The historic recommendation has received mixed responses …