All the headlines from our New Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2018 // A northwestern New Mexico county is the latest to sue over the opioid crisis.Lawyers for San Juan County filed the challenge late last week against numerous pharmaceutical companies and distributors. The county is seeking...
May 22 2018 // A Santa Fe County, N.M. jury has awarded an 80-year-old woman more than $1.2 million after she was injured in a crash involving a stolen car chased by Santa Fe police.The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the jury decided that...
Apr 30 2018 // Testing has found that there’s asbestos nearly everywhere in an abandoned Alamogordo, N.M. apartment complex, a finding that complicates the city’s desire to demolish the dilapidated property.The Alamogordo...
Apr 23 2018 // The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available to small nonfarm businesses in 13 counties in New Mexico and one in Arizona to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in two...
Apr 16 2018 // The investigation into the cause of a structural failure of a coal silo at a power plant in northwestern New Mexico is ongoing, but the plant’s operator says repairs are underway.Officials with Public Service Co. of...
Apr 12 2018 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning that parts of New Mexico are in for more windy conditions later this week and that means higher fire danger.They say a deep low pressure system in the Great Basin...
Mar 28 2018 // The family of a teenager who died after a bull riding competition is suing the organizers of the 2016 event.Brandon Charley died in Fruitland, N.M., while riding a bull named WhooWee. The lawsuit filed in state district...
Mar 21 2018 // New Mexico’s DWI fatalities dropped 16 percent in 2017 from the previous year.Gov. Susana Martinez announced the decrease of alcohol-related fatalities from 173 in 2016 to 145 in 2017 on Friday as she said law...
Feb 19 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.The 2011 crash west of Las Cruces killed three people including...
Feb 12 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.Las Cruces Sun-News reports the 2011 crash west of Las Cruces...
Feb 12 2018 // New Mexico State Forestry officials say they already are anticipating an aggressive fire season, as 70 percent of the state is facing severe drought. KRQE-TV reports Forestry Division Official Greg Hesch says conditions...
Feb 2 2018 // A $5 million settlement has been reached in the death of a man who surveillance video and records show was repeatedly denied medical care after becoming violently ill inside a county jail, according to court records...
Jan 22 2018 // Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico will pay $800,000 to its former chief financial officer to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the former superintendent placed him on paid leave for questioning district...
Dec 22 2017 // President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for a New Mexico Native American community that is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding.The declaration announced Thursday by the White House...
Dec 11 2017 // New Mexico’s congressional delegation is asking the federal government for help as a Native American community in the state is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding.The delegation says a storm in...
Dec 1 2017 // An Albuquerque, N.M. cinema drone company says the Federal Aviation Administration has issued it a waiver that will allow it to fly drones over cast and crews on film locations.Flytcam Motion Pictures Managing Partner Luke...
Nov 29 2017 // A federal nuclear review panel still has some safety concerns about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new multimillion-dollar storage facility for radioactive waste.The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said in...
Nov 8 2017 // A northern New Mexico man is suing Walgreens over claims a pharmacist erroneously filled a prescription for him, and that anti-anxiety drug led to a suicide attempt.The Santa Fe New Mexican reported an attorney for Anthony...
Oct 30 2017 // Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were contaminated after radioactive particles were released into the air inside the lab’s plutonium facility. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the lab...
Oct 26 2017 // A rash of earthquakes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, according to a study from Colorado...