All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2023 // Hurricane Norma came ashore near the Pacific resort of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon. Hours later, Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of...
Oct 3 2023 // New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department has reached a $650,000 settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two former agency officials.The settlement was announced Tuesday, just weeks before the...
Sep 26 2023 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico is creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in some Louisiana communities, including New Orleans, prompting the...
Sep 22 2023 // 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 in U.S. District Court alleges Robert Dotson and his family were...
Aug 30 2023 // The federal government for the first time on Tuesday opened two areas in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast to build wind farms. Groups representing supply chain businesses hailed the chance for the new offshore leases...
Aug 7 2023 // More victims of a devastating wildfire sparked last year by the U.S. Forest Service in northern New Mexico are getting compensated, with payouts to landowners totaling more than $14 million as of early next week, federal...
Aug 7 2023 // A jury has awarded $485 million in damages in a civil case brought on behalf of an 8-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a New Mexico foster care program.The verdict came in late July after Rio Arriba...
Jul 31 2023 // A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the Department of Homeland Security was negligent in a drug bust that resulted in the first New Mexico State Police officer killed in the line of duty in over three decades.U.S....
Jul 20 2023 // GALVESTON — The federal government on Thursday announced the first-ever chance for companies to lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico to build wind farms, including two parcels roughly 30 miles off the Texas coast near...
Jul 19 2023 // A jury has awarded $485 million in damages in a civil case brought on behalf of an 8-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a New Mexico foster care program.The verdict came late last week after Rio Arriba...
Jul 7 2023 // Higginbotham has acquired Cress Insurance Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Higginbotham and Cress Insurance Group will come together to enhance service to the group’s 2,500 clients and serve a broader customer base...
Jul 3 2023 // New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy chain’s role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers.The agreement was signed in March, and state officials confirmed that a...
Jun 16 2023 // The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the filming of “Rust,” prosecutors are alleging, saying she...
Jun 13 2023 // New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy chain’s role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers.The agreement was signed in March, and state officials confirmed that a...
Jun 9 2023 // EW ORLEANS (AP) – The oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas is forecast to cover about 4,155 square miles (10,761 square kilometers) this...
Jun 9 2023 // New Mexico’s attorney general and its Environment Department filed suit against the manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals,” commonly referred to as PFAS, seeking monetary damages to defray the...
May 23 2023 // U.S. labor officials on Monday said they have asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co plant in Mexico in the latest “rapid response” probe under North...
May 23 2023 // The former director of the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies is suing state officials, saying his race and gender played a role in his firing.Eric Blinman filed a lawsuit in federal court late last week against...
May 19 2023 // The U.S. government is greenlighting a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send primarily wind-generated electricity from the rural plains of New Mexico to big cities in the West.The Interior...
May 16 2023 // Authorities were assessing the damage after a sinkhole developed on a New Mexico bridge, resulting in the rescue of two pedestrians.Los Lunas police said the city’s Main Street bridge over the Rio Grande remained...