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Residents from across New Mexico gathered outside the state Environment Department office in Santa Fe Friday afternoon and called on its officials to deny an air quality permit for the controversial Project Jupiter data center under construction in Doña Ana County.

U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) on Friday announced she and fellow members of Congress are urging a federal government watchdog agency to examine the prevalence and potential impacts of hazardous metals that may be present in retardants firefighters use in battling wildfires. 

Leger Fernández’s request to the U.S. Government Accountability Office cites unsafe...

Record-breaking July temperatures have left nearly 95% of New Mexico in some degree of drought, according to a new outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and “isolated” monsoon rains failed to p...

Although New Mexico has been investing heavily in fighting food insecurity in recent years, experts told lawmakers Wednesday demand for food assistance is on the rise. Federal changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and related efforts have strained local resources and put pressure on food banks.

Two relatives of people whom federal immigration agents arrested Wednesday in Santa Fe spoke out at a news conference Thursday, during which New Mexico elected officials decried the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s tactics in what they described as a spree of immigration arrests in the city this week. 

Madeline Pernillo, 18, and Yajaira Gutierrez, 19, ...