New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed 71 bills into law, including an $11.1 billion state budget and the nation's first universal child care program. Explore which bills made the cut — and which didn't:
March 10 marked the filing deadline for candidates to enter local races, including in the New Mexico House of Representatives, where all 70 seats are up for election, and 19 have drawn both Democratic and Republican primary challenges.
The New Mexico Department of Justice announced that it searched convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch on Monday along with officers from the New Mexico State Police and deputies from the Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem out as DHS secretary; Trump to tap Oklahoma Sen. Mullin
@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social reports for @statesnewsroom.com's DC Bureau:
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NEW: During his reelection campaign last fall, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said you can’t “arrest your way” out of homelessness.
But a ProPublica analysis found that under Keller, the city has increasingly jailed homeless people.
A Texas energy company has applied to build a 17-mile pipeline in Doña Ana County in order to help power a controversial data center in Southern New Mexico.
Don't miss Joshua Bowling's story in @sourcenm.com today about a secret ad buyer that covered its tracks in trying to drum up for support for Project Jupiter. (via @cosmicbowling.bsky.social)
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NEW: Physical mailers and digital ads have urged New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center. The company behind the effort is registered in Virginia, and seemingly no one wants to claim credit for it.
NEW: Physical mailers urging New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center had a Virginia return address
I take you inside the secretive ad push that seemingly no one wants to take credit for, at @sourcenm.com
Attorneys for the New Mexico state auditor and current and former lawmakers on Monday asked a judge to dismiss them from former Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard’s lawsuit that alleges powerful state leaders subjected him to a “smear campaign.”
Lincoln County and federal officials are finalizing a program that will enable the county to buy hundreds of Ruidoso-area homes at acute risk of floods stemming from 2024 wildfires
The state budget the Legislature approved last month includes $21 million for the effort.
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Bernadine Martin, the embattled district attorney for McKinley County, announced her resignation Thursday, just days before the state Supreme Court was slated to consider a petition by Attorney General Raúl Torrez to remove her from office.
The New Mexico office charged with permitting what would be the state’s first new uranium mine in decades has agreed to hold a public hearing after receiving more than 200 letters in opposition.
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New Mexico announced Wednesday it joined 14 other states in seeking a federal district court to overturn the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stripping of universal recommendations for childhood vaccines.
United States senators, including U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), questioned Steve Pearce about his previous statements about public lands and record as congressman for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District during the committee hearing Wednesday.
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An Aztec judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the legitimacy of Duke Rodriguez's Republican bid for governor. Rodriguez still faces a similar challenge from an opponent.
FEMA quietly appointed a new interim director for the multi-billion-dollar wildfire compensation fund while the previous director is on leave.
A partial government shutdown has disrupted her first days on the job, including halting payments to fire victims.
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Gallup-McKinley County Schools leaders voted on Monday to settle a lawsuit with the district’s former virtual learning provider. The state education secretary and state lawmakers recently blamed the arrangement for a $35 million shortfall in the education department’s budget.
Medical malpractice reform and universal child care? Yes. Gun bans? Not so much. The 30-day session has wrapped.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and leaders from both chambers of the state Legislature on Thursday hailed the passage of key priorities such as universal no-cost child care, medical malpractice reform and an ICE detention ban.
The final vote came after the Senate, including eight Democrats who voted alongside Republicans, voted to strip amendments that the Senate Judiciary Committee had added earlier Tuesday.
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A program to enact universal child care in New Mexico has one more procedural hoop before heading to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's desk.
On @sourcenm.com: As priority crime and public safety bills wither on the vine during the final hours of the 2026 New Mexico legislative session, @govmlg.bsky.social tells me it’s “a little early” to decide on calling a special session
“I don’t believe in calling legislators together to disagree.”
The bill removes the current six-year limit for prosecuting second-degree sexual criminal contact with minors. First-degree felonies involving criminal sexual contact with minors already lack statutes of limitation for prosecution.
Early in the morning, a New Mexico House committee rescheduled a controversial gun bill. It's not clear if it will get another hearing before the Legislature adjourns Thursday.
The New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced House Bill 99, a medical malpractice overhaul, with Republicans and all but one Democrat voting in favor of the measure.
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Before the Legislature can send the budget to the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the House will have to take a vote on whether it agrees with changes the Senate made.
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Local governments in three NM counties would receive $10.5 million over the next two years to offset potential revenue losses if ICE stops housing immigrant detainees in county facilities, under a bill the Senate Finance Committee considered Monday.
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