NM Environment Department will follow governor’s new mandate despite staffing challenges
357 Views The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) will be holding a rapid hiring event next Saturday September 23, 2023 hoping to fill over 40 positions. This comes after the department has rallied for months for more money to hire staff and now has a new mandate to test wastewater at schools.
New Mexico State Police to increase presence in Bernalillo County
315 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After a federal judge blocked enforcement of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s temporary public gun ban in Bernalillo County, more New Mexico State Police officers will be stationed in Bernalillo County.
New Mexico Gas Company proposes rate increase for next fall
275 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Gas Company officials said Thursday they applied for a double-digit percent rate increase that could start next fall. If approved, an 11% rate increase would take effect no earlier than October 2024. Officials say the average residential bill would increase $6.70 per month.
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument provides boost to local economy, study finds
272 Views A newly released study shows that the designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks as a national monument has driven economic development over the past decade in Southern New Mexico.
New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich takes part in forum on artificial intelligence
290 Views NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich was on hand for a forum on the pros and cons of artificial intelligence. Tech giants like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk joined lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday to discuss how the government can allow AI to thrive while putting safeguards in […]
Hundreds pay respects to late Gov. Bill Richardson at Capitol Rotunda
240 Views SANTA FE, N.M. — People from all over the world gathered in the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday to pay their respects to former Gov. Bill Richardson. Richardson died in his sleep just over a week ago at his summer home in Massachusetts. He was 75.
What is left of governor’s emergency health order?
278 Views Federal judge blocked the part of the order that suspended the right to carry a gun in public in Bernalillo County ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gun owners in Bernalillo County can carry their guns again for now. The Governor said her goal with the ban was to drive down gun violence in New Mexico.
An El Paso food bank and La Mesa, NM mushroom farm offer solutions to food desert issue in the Borderland
334 Views At El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, the city’s only food bank, they currently serve 150,000 food insecure people in the city. The need to improve food equity in a region where many people face limited access to healthy, nutritious food, inspired Patsy Stallworth to open Desert Spoon Food Hub in El Paso eight years […]
Federal lawsuit filed to remove Donald Trump from New Mexico ballots
262 Views John Anthony Castro, a 2024 Republican Presidential candidate, has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver. The lawsuit was filed on Friday, Sept. 8.
New Mexico AG will not defend governor’s temporary ban on guns in public
279 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez issued a letter to the governor, advising his office will not defend her public health order on gun violence.
