GALLUP, N.M. - Navajo poet Jake Skeets has been named one of the winners of this year's Whiting Award. The Gallup Independent reports the Giles Whiting Foundation recently announced Skeets as one of the 10 writers to...

A inmate who recently arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Bernalillo County said Monday in a statement that the jail learned of the positive test on...

Plans for a Navajo Nation entity to manage Medicaid on parts of the reservation are up in the air over disagreements among tribal leaders. A tribal corporation has been touting a plan that would incorporate traditional...

Two years after a U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration to reconsider its refusal to protect sage grouse populations along the California-Nevada line, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has again decided against...

A Massachusetts tribe is losing reservation status for its nearly 300 acres, raising fears among Native American groups that other tribes could face the same fate under the Trump administration. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe...

Archaeologists, historians and environmentalists are joining New Mexico's congressional delegation and a coalition of Native American tribes in asking federal land managers to grant more time for the public to comment...

Officials say a Metropolitan Detention Center inmate in Albuquerque has tested positive for COVID-19. Bernalillo County said Monday in a statement the jail learned of the positive test on Sunday and the inmate is in...

HOBBS, N.M. - The Hobbs News-Sun is ending its Saturday edition and shrinking the size of the paper amid falling oil prices and the downtown caused by COVID-19. Hobbs News-Sun Publisher Daniel Russell announced Saturday...

A Santa Fe police lieutenant has been placed on alternative duty after he was arrested for domestic violence. Court records show Christopher McCord faces an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon on a household member...

A New Mexico startup has landed $5 million in private equity from investors to accelerate the marketing of super-fast cell-screening and analysis technology. The Albuquerque Journal reports that BennuBio Inc. won the...

The New Mexico Attorney General's Office is reviewing a case involving a sheriff who police said showed up drunk to a SWAT standoff and tried to order officers away. Attorney General spokesman Matt Baca told The...

Health officials have been telling people for weeks to wash their hands thoroughly to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s not always an easy task on the Navajo Nation, where 30% of residents on the vast...

Restrictions limiting person-to-person contact to stop the spread of COVID-19 is hindering Democratic primary challengers seeking to unseat incumbent state lawmakers in New Mexico. Challengers are barred for weeks from...

As the coronavirus rages through Europe, and major American cities like New York and Los Angeles, more than a third of counties across the U.S. still have not reported a positive test result for infection across what are...

The New Mexico State Police and other law enforcement agencies say they're not making traffic stops to enforce a statewide stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to combat the spread of the...

Tribes say their persistent efforts to be included in a massive stimulus bill to respond to the new coronavirus have paid off. Tribes have been lobbying Congress to help address shortfalls in an already underfunded health...

For the love of bees, New Mexico is now offering motorists a chance to help the pollinators through the purchase of a special license plate. The state Transportation Department says proceeds from the new plates will help...

New Mexico's largest city will be investing a half-million dollars to promote local businesses that line its stretch of historic Route 66. The city of Albuquerque announced the effort Friday, saying it's looking...

A New Mexico sheriff is facing an obstruction charge after police say he showed up drunk to a SWAT standoff and tried to order officers away. A criminal complaint filed Thursday said Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan,...

New Mexico is canceling its national tourism campaign and is halting related events as COVID-19 restrictions have grounded tourism in the state to a halt. New Mexico Cabinet Secretary for Tourism Jen Schroer said Friday...

A western New Mexico state senator is urging authorities to stop charging customers near the Navajo Nation without full indoor household plumbing for drinking water at a municipal filling station because of the coronavirus...

Authorities say one person is dead and a firefighter was injured  in a house fire early Friday morning. Albuquerque Fire Rescue says the firefighter was taken to a hospital for treatment after suffering minor injuries in...

A Crime Stoppers official in New Mexico is facing charges after investigators say he used a donated SUV for personal use. A criminal complaint filed Wednesday says Johnny Adams drove the gifted Ford Expedition SUV meant...

GRANTS, N.M. - Authorities say they have put down a prison riot in western New Mexico after a reported suicide of an inmate. The Gallup Independent reports inmates at Northwestern New Mexico Correctional Center in Grants...

Albuquerque police say UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been arrested on suspicion of DWI and other offenses after officers heard gunshots and found him sitting in a parked vehicle with a gun. Police say the...

TUCUMCARI, N.M. - A New Mexico district attorney says he was held in contempt of court after he skipped a hearing to follow COVID-19 travel restrictions. The Albuquerque Journal reports state District Judge Lisa Riley in...

A powerful commission in charge of regulating utilities and other New Mexico businesses is being evicted from its state offices by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration. Officials with the Public Regulation...

SANTA FE, N.M. - The city of Santa Fe and the New Mexico Environment Department have reached a settlement involving the death of a city employee who was electrocuted in April 2019. The Albuquerque Journal reported...

Five earthquakes centered near a remote area of West Texas have rattled the region. The U.S. Geological Survey says the first tremor registered at a magnitude 3.0 Thursday near Mentone, in Loving County on the New Mexico...

More than 17,000 New Mexico residents applied for unemployment benefits amid the widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The numbers released Thursday show the jump in New Mexico is more than 19 times the...

The largest municipal jail in New Mexico is releasing some inmates who are considered vulnerable to the new coronavirus. Officials at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque say they identified several dozen...

The Trump administration is sticking with its crowd friendly waiver of entrance fees at national parks during the coronavirus outbreak. That's even as managers at some parks try and fail to keep tens of thousands of...

New Mexico has reached a settlement with foster youth and their advocates that will allow for the creation of a trauma response system for all children in state custody. The Human Services Department and state child...

Forest Service officials say the threat of wildfires is rising in southwestern New Mexico. Gila National Forest officials on Thursday cited strong winds, low humidity and the recent discovery of an abandoned campfire for a...

The Navajo Nation reports 20 more cases of the coronavirus on its reservation and a rural Arizona county is no longer among the few without cases of the disease. Navajo tribal officials announced Wednesday night that that...