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The ruling in favor of a company seeking to store nuclear waste in Texas has implications for NM's fight to prevent a similar facility being built here. But a 2023 state law banning state agencies from permitting nuclear waste storage still holds weight, experts say. sourcenm.com/2025/06/18/s...

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The news conference comes amid an increase of federal immigration operations in the state, according to the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center and other groups that represent immigrants. sourcenm.com/2025/06/18/n...

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Young people and some adults with disabilities in New Mexico can receive free food this summer at hundreds of sites across the state.

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Attorneys for state regulators and the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority agreed to push back administrative hearings over fines for $250,000 issued over arsenic levels to sometime this fall.

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Five months after New Mexico State Police shot and killed Jesus Rubio during a traffic stop in Hobbs, his family's attorneys say the Department of Public Safety still has not turned over records about the incident.

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“I refuse to let immigrants be political pawns on his path toward fascism." —California Dem U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla said during his first floor speech since being handcuffed while trying to ask a question during Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference.

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Two wildfires burning north of Silver City have burned an area more than 80,000 acres, according to the latest updates, as state health officials warn of smoke impacts on respiratory health in the area. sourcenm.com/briefs/nm-go... #nmfire

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A measles detection in Deming wastewater puts health officials on alert for measles cases in Luna County.

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The federal budget reconciliation bill making progress in the United States Senate this week makes more than 21,000 square miles of public land in New Mexico “eligible” to be sold to private buyers, according to the Wilderness Society. sourcenm.com/2025/06/17/g...

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Amid border crackdowns, more human remains are being discovered in New Mexico: “Any state lawmaker or local leader should be aware that these policies come at a human cost.” — Aimée Santillán, Hope Border Institute @sourcenm.com / @texastribune.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/deat...

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Albuquerque-area lawmakers say they're working with legislative leaders and police to review their security protocols in the wake of the assassination of a high-ranking state lawmaker in Minnesota.

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New Mexico's labor board last Thursday blocked the state prison system from carrying on with proposed work schedules for prison guards, until it negotiates with their union.

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As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

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"Even a broken clock is right twice a day," U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) said of Republicans including radiation exposure compensation money in the U.S. Senate version of the big budget bill. NM's congressional delegation recently called for a reintroduction of RECA.

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President Trump late Sunday instructed ICE to focus its raids on New York, LA and Chicago.

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The State Ethics Commission in a new lawsuit alleged that nonprofit New Mexico Safety over Profit violated state disclosure laws by failing to report $56,000 spent lobbying against medical malpractice reform before the session. The nonprofit's leader also manages the campaign for a gov. candidate.

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Heavily militarized border enforcement pushes people to attempt deadlier routes through dangerous terrain, costing lives, experts say. The remains of more and more migrants have been found in the New Mexico desert from @sourcenm.com‬ / ‪@texastribune.org‬ sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

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Wall-to-wall crowds for the No Kings protests in Santa Fe and Albuquerque today, just two of more than a dozen statewide.

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By the #s: Parts of New Mexico are about to see their first three-digit days of the year. The temperatures will be dangerously hot in some places, according to the National Weather Service’s Heat Risk Map. More here: sourcenm.com/briefs/by-th...

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NEW: An ICE spokesperson just told Source that Carrero-Marquez was deported to his home country of Venezuela on Tuesday. More here: sourcenm.com/2025/06/13/i...

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New Mexico health officials reported possible measles exposures at the airport, supermarkets, indoor pool and other locations in Bernalillo, Sandoval and Santa Fe counties over the past two weeks. sourcenm.com/briefs/possi...

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In a new op-ed for Source's commentary section, immigration lawyer Allegra Love breaks down why ICE's detention of immigrants is wrong.

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State lawmakers and New Mexico's ACLU chapter have endorsed a petition for the state's police misconduct board to adopt rules that would allow citizens to file complaints against police officers. High-ranking police officials say they're already held accountable by other means.

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It remains to see how this will fare in the U.S. Senate, but the U.S. House approved pulling billions in funding to NPR and PBS, along with foreign aid programs.

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Our internet is back! Just in time to say that federal agents arrested a U.S. senator during a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. buff.ly/47iy2I9

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The New Mexico Supreme Court's first-ever interpretation of the landmark 2021 New Mexico Civil Rights Act arises out of a case one may not expect: an argument over a Ruidoso Downs horse trainer's license.

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New Mexicans in Albuquerque and Las Cruces face major heat risk as temperatures rise this weekend. And while anyone's health can be impacted by heat, new research is showing just how vulnerable people experiencing homelessness are.

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The designation means three of six mining sites nationwide selected for streamlined federal permitting are uranium mine proposals in New Mexico. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/n...

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A judge yesterday upheld a ruling by the state labor board that management at the University of New Mexico Sandoval Regional Medical Center unlawfully refused to bargain with its employees over layoffs in 2023.

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The wife of an Albuquerque man witnessed federal immigration agents use what she described as unnecessary force in a recent arrest in the South Valley, causing him to be hospitalized. Now, after returning to ICE custody, no one knows where he is. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/i...

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Los Alamos National Lab wants to vent tritium and needs the state environment department's OK. NMED has some conditions.

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Hundreds of workers at the state Department of Health and the Health Care Authority "were forced to work in a building with an active gas leak for several days on two separate occasions,” the head of CWA Local 7076 wrote in a grievance last week.

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NM health officials have been testing wastewater for measles and got a positive sample from Roswell.

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One year after RECA's expiration, NM's federal delegation and radiation survivors remain determined to pass a bill offering compensation.

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New Mexico's highest court ruled last week that a confidential informant's first-hand observations of illicit drugs were enough to justify a search by Alamogordo police in 2019.

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ICYMI: New Mexico’s congressional delegation chastised federal efforts to revoke a 10-mile buffer zone for oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. buff.ly/SrBHgi4

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We asked the 10 county sheriffs whose jurisdictions did not appear on the Trump administration's list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" list why they weren’t included. Most didn’t respond, and the ones who did diverged on whether it’s their responsibility to enforce federal immigration law.

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California versus the federal government continues.

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Even though New Mexico ranked last, again, for child well being, the executive director of NM Voices for Children argues progress has been made and reasons exist to be hopeful about more progress going forward.

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HSI executed a search warrant at the Outlook Dairy Farms in Lovington, N.M. on June 4, arresting 11 people accused of misuse of visas, permits or other documents. buff.ly/a61z34k

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The U.S. set aside environmental protections to speed up border wall construction along New Mexico’s border with Mexico. A conservation advocate says the feds are using legal waivers for "wildlife-killing wall," and NM's governor says local officials should be consulted before construction begins.

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The grandfather of 2 stepped out of the ICE office Friday, prompting cheers from activists who had been waiting 3 hours to learn whether he would be deported. His release means that, if only for a few more days, he won't not be sent away from the country he’s lived in 20 years. buff.ly/4OtHqcs

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Health officials reported no new measles cases on Friday, but a San Juan County doctor spoke on what health officials are doing to prevent spread and encourage vaccinations.

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Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary and gubernatorial candidate, opened a two-day water summit with a speech about the threats to New Mexico water from both climate change and the Trump administration.

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Making it more expensive to import and export goods could reduce the number of commercial vehicles travelling through New Mexico to and from ports; and bring down commercial trucking and diesel fuel tax revenues, the state transportation agency’s head economist told lawmakers on Thursday.

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Federal prosecutors this month charged fewer people for allegedly trespassing on the newly established military base along New Mexico’s border with Mexico, according to a Source New Mexico review of federal court records. Read more here: buff.ly/xg4mB7g

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Recent rains around New Mexico offer some relief, as May and June typically emerge as some of the driest months, however, projected warm temperatures through the next several weeks could mean the recent spouting of new plants could aggravate wildfire risk.

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President Trump's travel ban goes into effect Monday, barring entry by nationals from: Trump bars entry from: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

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New Mexico's attorney general on Wednesday announced settlements with two insulin manufacturers effectively capping the diabetes treatment to $35 or less per month for cash-paying or uninsured patients.

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Eduardo Merino's family has petitioned a court to appoint his fiance to represent his estate in order to investigate and possibly pursue a wrongful death lawsuit, after he died in a state prison in Clayton last month.

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