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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico enacted legislation Monday to provide state funding for food assistance each week past the end of the year if federal SNAP food aid falters.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico has its first Republican contender for governor ahead of the 2026 elections, as the three-term city mayor of fast-growing Rio Rancho launched his campaign.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico lawmakers moved quickly Thursday at a special legislative session to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump's cuts to federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico's governor is calling on state lawmakers to shore up safety net programs in response to federal spending cuts enacted by President Donald Trump, in an announcement Thursday that highlighted reduced federal support for Medicaid and food assistance programs.
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) -- President Donald Trump has thrust the military into a central role in deterring illegal crossings into the U.S. at its southern border.
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) -- Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) -- The military is expanding its authority and reach along swaths of the southern U.S. border where troops have been empowered to detain people who enter the country illegally.
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) -- Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A Republican-sponsored proposal before Congress to mandate the sale of federal public lands received a mixed reception Monday from the governors of Western states.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border, in an escalation of the military's enforcement role, authorities said Wednesday
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Competition for the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico is heating up as former four-term Las Cruces mayor Ken Miyagishima launched a campaign with a centrist focus on public safety, affordable housing and efforts to shore up the state's health care workforce.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The state of New Mexico must create a remedial plan to improve K-12 education after falling short of providing an adequate public school education to Native American students and others from low-income households, a judge ruled Tuesday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A Democratic district attorney in the eye of New Mexico's tempest over crime and accountability launched his candidacy for governor Thursday as the National Guard prepares to deploy to the state's largest city to shore up public safety.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The growing ranks of New Mexico voters with no party affiliation will be allowed to vote in primary elections without changing their nonpartisan status, under a bill signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Attorneys general from 14 states challenged the authority of billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive government data and exercise "virtually unchecked power" in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's early actions, decrying everything from the president's immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
A movement to protest the early actions of President Donald Trump's administration took off Wednesday, as thousands of demonstrators gathered outside a federal courthouse in Philadelphia and at state capitols in Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin and Indiana.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Leading New Mexico legislators on Wednesday recommended a 5.7% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year that emphasizes health care access, public school improvements, and early education and childcare programs that can boost household finances.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico's top elections regulator said Tuesday that she has been the target of harassing and threatening comments on social media after affirming President-elect Donald Trump's national election victory in an attempt to halt conspiracy theories.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Women have won 60 seats in the New Mexico Legislature to secure the largest female legislative majority in U.S. history, stirring emotions of joy, surprise and vindication.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez won reelection in New Mexico's swing district along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a rematch against the Republican he ousted in 2022.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez is seeking a second term in New Mexico's swing district along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a rematch against the Republican he ousted in 2022, as votes were tallied on Tuesday evening.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez is seeking a second term in New Mexico's swing district along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a rematch against the Republican he ousted in 2022.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez is seeking a second term in New Mexico's swing district along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a rematch against the Republican he ousted in 2022.
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) -- The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino's Desert Crossing restaurant.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A federal judge says New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against a Republican-backed group in refusing access to voter registration rolls.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico voters have ousted several incumbent lawmakers in the state's primary election, as ballots were tallied Wednesday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- An incumbent district attorney pursing an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin fended off a Democratic challenger in New Mexico's primary election on Tuesday to ensure her reelection.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A Republican who backed Donald Trump's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election won the GOP nomination for a state Senate seat in New Mexico's primary election on Tuesday.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democrats ousted a state senator accused of sexual harassment in New Mexico as voters picked their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November.