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The New Mexico Health Care Authority on Aug. 4, 2026, announced $50 million in state funds for 41 rural healthcare providers grappling with federal cuts and other challenges in providing care in underserved communities.
New Mexico First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid at the end of the day Thursday issued a ruling in the state’s pending case against social media giant Meta, ordering the company to pay $567 million for an abatement fund to address the harms it has done to the state’s youth.
New Mexico environmental officials plugged a record number of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells last year, thanks in large part to funding from Biden-era grants, they told a panel of state lawmakers Monday.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Friday lauded this week’s $567 million judgment against Meta Platforms Inc. as “historic” and wide-ranging, but also railed against decades-old laws that he said continue to limit his office’s ability to protect kids online. New Mexico First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid late Thursday issued a 68-page ruling […]
The Chama Basin Watershed Protection Act, sponsored by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, all New Mexico Democrats, if enacted, would prohibit all forms of uranium mining through much of Rio Arriba County, including in the Santa Fe and Carson national forests.