All the headlines from our New Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2012 // A Santa Fe, N.M. jury has awarded $2 million to a man whose back surgery was so badly botched he suffered cardiac arrest and required three more surgeries.Matt McCann entered Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in...
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 11 2012 // A Santa Fe jury has awarded $2 million to a man whose back surgery was so badly botched he suffered cardiac arrest and required three more surgeries.Matt McCann entered Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa...
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 5 2012 // The state has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a whistleblower who accused the New Mexico Department of Health of nepotism and financial irregularities.The Albuquerque Journal reported that under a settlement agreement made...
Aug 21 2012 // A man who says he invested more than $1.5 million in a failed northwestern New Mexico hospital project is suing the project’s promoter for fraud.Michael Atchison’s lawsuit claims promoter Bobby Willis spent the...
Aug 14 2012 // A man has sued a security company after one of its guards pepper-sprayed him last month on the sidewalk in downtown Santa Fe, N.M.The Albuquerque Journal reported that 26-year-old Justin LeVan filed a lawsuit on July 31...
Jul 31 2012 // About 80 malpractice claims that forced an Alamogordo hospital to seek bankruptcy court protection last summer have been settled for more than $33 million.The Albuquerque Journal reported that that settlement lets the...
Jul 31 2012 // A New Mexico pueblo hit by flooding after a wildfire scorched the area is receiving $11 million in federal assistance.The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency goes to Santa Clara Pueblo for mitigation and...
Jul 10 2012 // A special team assigned to survey the damage of the Little Bear Fire in southern New Mexico says aerial seeding will begin on parts of the burn scar this week.There will be at least two phases of seeding on about 12,000...
Jun 26 2012 // Monsoons are about the only thing right now that could bring much needed relief to wildfire-plagued Western states like Colorado and New Mexico, which are both on track to have fire seasons on a historic level – although...
Jun 13 2012 // In what could be shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire seasons in recent memory, insurers are scrambling to deal with the aftermath of several massive wildfires in the region – and they’re preparing people for...
Jun 7 2012 // The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest is now 30 percent contained, according to an official fire report that was updated on Thursday. The fire, which was caused by a lighting strike...
Jun 6 2012 // The Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest is now consumed more than 263,000 acres and is at 22 percent containment, according to an official fire report.More than 1,000 personnel are...
Jun 5 2012 // Aerial ignitions along multiple portions of the Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire boundary in New Mexico allowed crews to hold and mop-up without any complications, while containment of the state’s largest recorded...
Jun 4 2012 // Firefighters conducted more aerial ignitions over the weekend along pieces of the western boundary of the Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, which has grown to more than 255,000...
Jun 1 2012 // Firefighters made progress on the northern and western fronts of the Whitewater-Baldy complex fire in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest with the help of increased humidity levels.The fire has now consumed a reported...
May 30 2012 // A wildfire in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest has consumed 170,252 acres, making it the largest wildfire on record in New Mexico, a fire incident spokesman told the news website msnbc.com. “It’s...
May 25 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate.Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as...
May 24 2012 // On a set of 10 steps states can take to prevent injuries , 24 states scored a five or lower. Two states, California and New York, received the highest score of nine out of a possible 10, while two states scored the lowest,...