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A new audit released Monday by the New Mexico Office of the State Auditor found that Mora County officials mishandled millions of dollars in state disaster loans and also repeatedly skirted competitive bidding requirements to award contracts in a community where, as one county employee described it to auditors, residents are “all pretty much related in one way or another.”&nb...

New Mexico’s lieutenant governor, the second-highest executive, has dual roles, according to the state’s Constitution. The lieutenant governor acts as chief executive when the governor is absent. During legislative sessions, the lieutenant governor oversees the state Senate as president, enforces the rules regarding decorum on the floor and casting tie-breaking votes.

Harry Garcia, an incumbent turned challenger, is seeking a rematch in the June 2 Democratic primary for House District 69, after he was unseated in 2024 by the incumbent, freshman Rep. Michelle Pauline Abeyta.

The developers behind Project Jupiter, the massive OpenAI and Oracle data center campus under construction in Southern New Mexico, on Monday announced they would replace their plans to build gas turbines and diesel generators with a power source that would “dramatically reduce water use and protect local air quality.”

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Duke Rodriguez thinks he has the resume needed to move New Mexico’s troubled healthcare industry and physician shortage in the right direction.

He previously worked as chief operating officer of the Lovelace Health System, which today operates hospitals and clinics in the Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Roswell areas. He later joined then-Gov. Gary Johnson’s administration a...