All the headlines from our New Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2012 // More than a dozen animals perished in a fire at a New Mexico veterinary clinic.KOB-TV reports authorities say a fire started Monday morning in the front office of Tucumcari Animal Hospital and quickly spread. Fire...
May 8 2012 // Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are asking the federal government for help to prevent possible flooding at Santa Clara Pueblo.Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan say the northern...
Apr 27 2012 // A New Mexico widow whose husband was killed in a 2009 plane crash is suing a Utah crematory and funeral home after she says they gave her the wrong person’s ashes.Marilynn Flynn of Alamogordo has filed a federal...
Apr 24 2012 // The family of a little girl killed when her family’s van was hit by a vehicle driven by a Santa Fe, New Mexico surgeon suspected of driving drunk has filed a wrongful death suit against the doctor and her insurance...
Apr 23 2012 // The family of a little girl killed when her family’s van was hit by a vehicle driven by a Santa Fe, N.M., surgeon suspected of driving drunk has filed a wrongful death suit against the doctor and her insurance...
Mar 29 2012 // Gov. Susana Martinez says conditions are in place for another difficult fire season in New Mexico.The governor kicked off Wildfire Awareness Week on Tuesday by urging residents to be prepared and do their part to prevent...
Mar 15 2012 // State records show that alcohol-related deaths from traffic crashes in New Mexico rose slightly.Preliminary Traffic Safety Bureau records indicate 146 people were killed in highway crashes involving alcohol in 2011....
Feb 22 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named John Rossetti vice president of the employee benefits group in the firm’s Albuquerque, N.M. office. Rossetti was previously an account...
Feb 9 2012 // Members of the New Mexico House and Senate have likely shelved for this session an effort to exempt spacecraft manufacturers from legal liability in case space flight passengers are injured in future space flights from...
Jan 21 2012 // New Mexico may have more snow on the ground as it starts the new year, but much of the state remains in drought and fire officials are preparing for what could be another rough year.State Forestry officials have outlined...
Jan 13 2012 // Members of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission are considering recommendations for overhauling the agency’s hiring policies and shifting some of its duties to other state departments.The commission sets rates...
Jan 9 2012 // A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a New Mexico lawsuit by two women who alleged their daughter’s teacher discriminated against the girl because her parents are gay.Shannon Peterson and Jessica Bissell sued...
Jan 5 2012 // New Mexico may have more snow on the ground as it starts the new year, but much of the state remains in drought and fire officials are preparing for what could be another rough year.State Forestry officials have outlined...
Dec 29 2011 // A recently filed lawsuit accuses a former executive at a New Mexico hospital of bilking the care center out of more than $3 million by funneling the money through companies he owned in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. The...
Sep 16 2011 // Perhaps it’s a matter of perspective. If you’re a cattle rancher in New Mexico without enough grass to feed your stock, it’s a drought. If you’re a satellite orbiting a couple of hundred miles away...
Aug 24 2011 // Virginia’s earthquake isn’t the only notable temblor to hit the United States this week.On Monday the largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 40 years shook hundreds of people in the southern part of...
Jul 28 2011 // The natural gas shortage and record freezing temperatures that slammed New Mexico in February cost insurance companies $55 million in claims.A memo from the state Public Regulation Commission’s Insurance Division...
Jun 30 2011 // Wildfire is threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, and has burned more than 10,000 acres, local officials report.Although an increase in humidity early Tuesday was a short-term benefit, rounds...
Jun 22 2011 // Fourteen homes have been destroyed in Arizona yesterday, after the Monument Fire burning near Sierra Vista went south into neighborhoods. All told, there are six fires burning in Arizona, and five in New Mexico.As of June...
Jun 20 2011 // Some residents evacuated because of wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico were allowed to return to their homes as firefighters battled strong winds and hot weather to try to keep more houses, dry forests and stretches of...