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News Articles: New Mexico

Clinic escorts use party horns and whistles to counter the presence of anti-abortion activist Gabriel Olivier, right, outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2022.

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  • National

Mississippi's last abortion clinic shuts down. The owner promises to continue working

The clinic is now headed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 40 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

July 07, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A plume of smoke from the Black Fire rises over the Gila National Forest. Philip Connors watched the fire grow and creep closer to his fire lookout post.

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  • Weather

A New Mexico firewatcher describes watching his world burn

Philip Connors deeply loves the forest he has watched over every summer for the past 20 years. But it was a different forest two decades ago, and will be even more changed once the flames die down.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon and
  • Steve Inskeep
Wind kicks up dust at the fairgrounds as firefighters meet and confer about the wildfire raging on the other side of the hill behind them just outside of Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.

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  • National

New Mexico residents brace for extreme wildfire conditions

With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of a small northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.

May 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A slurry bomber dumps the fire retardant between the Calf Canyon/Hermit Peak Fire and homes on the westside of Las Vegas, N.M., Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

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  • National

Biden declares disaster in New Mexico wildfire zone

The declaration releases emergency funds to recovery efforts in three counties in northeastern New Mexico.

May 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A video aboard the school bus captures the moment a car crashes into the bus during the February incident.

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  • Law

Albuquerque police release footage of a school bus crash

The crash occurred in February. The school bus was carrying 23 children at the time, according to police.

April 28, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
In this photo provided by the National Park Service, fallen trees smolder after a wildfire at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument in Arizona, Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

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  • National

Fires hit Southwest, New Mexico's season 'dangerously early'

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

April 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Kylee Moberg tries to get through a road block on N.M. 94 to get to her friend and horses on Friday. Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger.

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  • National

Fires hit Southwest, New Mexico's season 'dangerously early'

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

April 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A pair of Resource Advisors from the Coconino National Forest record data in Division Alpha as they work to determine the severity of Tunnel Fires impact on the Forest.

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  • National

Southwest fire crews brace for return of dangerous winds

Firefighters are bracing for the return of ferocious winds in the Southwest after a brief reprieve allowed them to attack flames from the air for the first time in days.

April 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Coconino National Forest, the Tunnel Fire burns near Flagstaff, Ariz., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

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  • National

Wind will be a force to reckon with on Southwest wildfires

Fire managers across the Southwest are reckoning with strong winds that forecasters say could lead to explosive growth in wildfires this week.

April 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A fire burns along a hillside in Ruidoso, N.M., on Wednesday. Officials say a wildfire has burned about 150 structures, including homes, in Ruidoso.

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  • National

A wind-driven wildfire in New Mexico is believed to have killed 2 people

Thousands of residents were displaced as firefighters scouted the mountainsides around a village looking for opportunities to slow a wildfire that burned at least 150 homes and other structures.

April 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Marijuana dispensary manager LeRoy Roybal, right, and bud tender Benjamin Oliver prepare on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, for the opening of New Mexico's regulated market for recreational cannabis at a Minerva Canna store in Santa Fe, N.M.

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  • National

New Mexico launches cannabis sales, within Texans' reach

New Mexico is making the sale of up to 2 ounces of recreational marijuana legal, bringing legalization to the doorstep of Texas, the largest prohibition state.

April 01, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced efforts to temporarily employ National Guard troops and state workers as substitute teachers and child care center workers during a news conference at Sante Fe High School in Santa Fe, N.M., on Tuesday.

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  • Education

New Mexico is calling on the National Guard to fill in as substitute teachers

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a new initiative to help schools and child care facilities that are experiencing "extreme" staffing shortages. The plan also taps state employees.

January 21, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
History teacher Wendy Leighton holds a copy of "They Called us Enemy," about the internment of Japanese Americans, while speaking about marginalized with her students at Monte del Sol Charter School, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M.

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  • Education

New Mexico is pushing to be a 'model' for how race is taught in U.S. schools

Officials say they hope their standards can be a model for the country of social studies teaching that is culturally responsive, as student populations grow increasingly diverse.

January 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent Scott Elder poses outside of Highland High School. Albuquerque Public Schools says classes will be canceled Friday for a second day after a cyberattack.

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  • National

A cyberattack in Albuquerque forces schools to cancel classes

Albuquerque isn't alone. Five school districts in New Mexico have suffered major cyberattacks in the past two years, including one that's still dealing with an attack that hit just after Christmas.

January 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The FBI's El Paso, Texas, office received a report of an assault of a female service member by male Afghan evacuees at a complex in New Mexico.

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  • National

FBI Investigating Reported Assault of Female U.S. Service Member By Afghan Evacuees

The service member said male evacuees staying at the Doña Ana County Range Complex in New Mexico assaulted her, according to local reports.

September 25, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
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