Texas surpasses 20,000 virus deaths, second highest in US
Views 0 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has surpassed 20,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths as COVID-19 continues to surge in the United States. Researchers with Johns Hopkins University say the death count, reached Monday, is the second highest in the country, behind New York. Texas has the 22nd highest death count per capita at 69.7 deaths […]
Details emerge from federal raid on Navajo-area farms
Views 0 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. attorney’s office says it destroyed a quarter-million plants during marijuana eradication efforts at 21 farms in the Shiprock area of the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico.
New Mexico begins lockdown as state looks to curb spread
Views 0 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is starting its lockdown as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and hospital administrators look to curb COVID-19 infections.
Longtime KOAT anchor Johnny Morris dies
Views 0 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A longtime member of the Action 7 News family, Johnny Morris, has passed away. Many welcomed Johnny into their homes when he began at KOAT in the 1970s. In 1979 he teamed up with Mary Lynn Roper on the news desk becoming New Mexico’s first male and female co-anchor team. He […]
Hannah Colton, KUNM News Director And Reporter, Dies At 29
Views 0 “The KUNM community is heartbroken to say that News Director Hannah Colton died earlier this week at age 29. She has been a brilliant news leader during the pandemic, guiding the team and editing stories about the virus, the calls to stop racist policing and the 2020 election.
Pandemic upends preparations for legislative session
Views 0 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – State lawmakers sparred on Thursday over whether to delay a legislative session that traditionally starts in mid-January, potentially deferring Democratic initiatives on cannabis, abortion rights, and education funding.
Hospitals using hundreds of travel nurses to help with COVID-19
Views 0 Out-of-state workers being contracted to help with increased hospitalizations ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — COVID-19 has hospitals around the state approaching or already above capacity. Hundreds of out-of-state workers are now helping handle that increase. KOAT spoke with the largest hospitals in the state.
Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce President: Businesses Cannot Wait Until Next Year For More Aid
Views 0 Over the course of the pandemic, more than 150 businesses have reached out to the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce in need of COVID related assistance. For Chamber of Commerce President Debbi Moore, it’s a heartbreaking sign of the times.
New Mexico governor reshuffles office as she advises Biden
Views 0 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An attorney who successfully defended the governor’s emergency health orders from legal challenges has been promoted to chief of staff by Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Public Banking A Way Up and Out During Economic Hardship
Views 0 Wake Up Call’s MK Mendoza speaks with two leading representatives from the non-profit Alliance for Local Prosperity about how public banking statewide could literally turn things around for New Mexico as we find out way out of economic hardship.
