The ‘Christmas Star’: NASA offers tips on watching once-in-lifetime conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn
909 Views (NEXSTAR) – If you’ve been watching the sky on these dark December nights you may have noticed two of the brightest objects creeping nearer to each other. Jupiter and Saturn are about to appear closer in the sky than they have in 400 years.
PED, partner agencies ‘find’ nearly 5K students previously unaccounted for
1,356 Views SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Public Education Department has announced that it has accounted for nearly 5,000 of the over 12,000 New Mexico students who were enrolled in public schools last spring but not this fall and were feared to be outside of the educational system. PED reports that most of the 4,926 […]
Gov. Lujan Grisham, state officials to provide COVID-19 update
842 Views Watch news conference here at 3 p.m. SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and state officials will host a remote news conference at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17 to provide an update on COVID-19 in New Mexico. The state amended the current Public Health Order on Wednesday, increasing capacity inside essential retail […]
New Mexico health secretary provides COVID-19 vaccine update
817 Views Watch full news conference SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Secretary-Designate of the New Mexico Department of Health Dr. Tracie Collins participated in a remote news conference on Tuesday to provide an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort. Dr. Collins emphasized that while it is a major step to have received the vaccine in New […]
NM courts surprised by lack of petitions for expungement
836 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County court officials are not seeing the interest they expected after a state law passed, allowing people to remove certain convictions from their records. They prepared for thousands of people asking for a second chance however, that hasn’t happened.
Rain, snow, and mix moves northeast into New Mexico Thursday
1,994 Views NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Rain, mix, and snow is moving northeast into New Mexico for this morning’s commute. Heavy rain is coming down in southwest New Mexico and the lower Rio Grande Valley. Mix is limited to the west mountains, and snow is possible along the I-40 corridor. Road conditions along and north of […]
Second stimulus checks: $1,200 direct payments may be back on the table
855 Views WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The idea of the second round of direct payments may be making a comeback, according to a report from Politico’s Jake Sherman. Sherman, who had been one of the leading reporters of the coronavirus relief negotiations, says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has softened his stance on the idea of $1,200 payments […]
2 longtime Democratic New Mexico senators vacate seats early
878 Views SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A longtime New Mexico state senator has announced he is retiring from his position and will step down a month before his four-year term was scheduled to expire after losing his bid this year for reelection. Democratic state Sen. John Arthur Smith, who had served eight terms and was chairman […]
Gov. Lujan Grisham, officials to provide update on COVID-19 county-by-county framework
812 Views SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and state officials will host a remote news conference on Monday, Nov. 30 at 3:00 p.m. to provide an update on COVID-19 in New Mexico and the forthcoming county-by-county framework for the state’s pandemic response. KRQE News 13 will stream the conference live on this […]
New developments in the dramatic prison riot caught on video
968 Views Larry Barker Follow-Up Investigation CLAYTON, N.M. (KRQE) – “We don’t want to ever see something like this happen again,” says Northeast New Mexico Prison Warden Tim Hatch. He’s referring to a defining moment at the Clayton, NM prison on September 23, 2017.
