Teen pilots airlift pets from crowded New Mexico shelters

480 Views   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Student pilots in New Mexico are helping airlift pets from crowded animal shelters to increase their odds at adoption. KRQE reports that high school students in Albuquerque have flown pets from a shelter in Las Cruces as part of a “relay” to Aurora, Colorado, where there are fewer stray […]

Nearly 16K Moderna vaccine doses arrive for long term care residents, staff

318 Views   According to state health officials, 15,700 Moderna vaccines are in New Mexico as of Sunday. New Mexico is one of the first states in the nation to give the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff at long-term care facilities on Sunday, according to state health officials. Eighty-three-year-old Briton Parkes-Berret said COVID-19 scares him.