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FBI: Shiprock Man Pleads Guilty To Violent Assault
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — A Shiprock man pleaded guilty in federal court to a violent assault in which he stabbed a victim three times in the back without provocation.
According to court documents, April 19, 2025, Matthew David Charley, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, stabbed John Doe three times in the back without provocation, causing serious injury.
Charley pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon. At sentencing, Charley faces up to 10 years in prison.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison and Justin A. Garris, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Read More
Lawmakers Promise More Big Wins For New Mexico As Governor Signs Year’s First Bills
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs one of the first bills to reach her desk this legislative session in the governor’s Cabinet room on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. Bills signed Thursday included a $1.5 billion bonding package to improve New Mexico roads, interstate compacts for doctors and social workers and a prohibition on local governments operating immigration detention centers. Photo by Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican
By Margaret O’Hara and Daniel J. Chacón
The Santa Fe New Mexican
As Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the first laws of the year to reach her desk, legislators Read More
Attempt To Overhaul New Mexico’s Education Administration System Rapidly Fails
Bill Sponsor Sen. Bill Soules, D-Las Cruces
By ANDRÉ SALKIN
The Santa Fe New Mexican
A yearslong effort to return public education oversight in New Mexico to an appointed state school board and superintendent, rather than a Cabinet secretary, saw a quick end this week.
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday rejected Senate Joint Resolution 3, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Bill Soules of Las Cruces, by a vote of 6-2.
Soules billed the proposal as a way to bring stability to New Mexico’s education system “regardless of which party is in power,” following a high turnover of education secretaries Read More
Community Invited To Roundtable Discussion On ‘Health Care In Northern New Mexico: Changing Landscape’ Feb. 24
Community News:
The Los Alamos Community Foundation, in partnership with the Los Alamos League of Women Voters and Anchorum Health Foundation, will host a community roundtable discussion featuring local medical experts on the current state of health care issues in Northern New Mexico.
The event is 6:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at SALA Los Alamos Event Center, 2551 Central Ave.
Many residents have experienced firsthand how access to health care in our region is increasingly at risk. Health care systems nationwide are undergoing seismic economic shifts, forcing hospitals and clinics to Read More
Legislative Roundup: 14 Days Left In Session
Brothers Sebastián, 6, and Santiago Casuas Natale, 8, play under the large table where Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and leaders from both parties were present to sign the first bills of the legislative session into law on Feb. 5, 2026. Sebastián Casuas Natale was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer and required care from out-of-state doctors, something he couldn’t get in New Mexico without the medical compact bill, SB 1, signed into law Thursday. Gabriela Campos/The New MexicanThe Santa Fe New Mexican:
Here comes the judge: A bill that would add a judge to the First Judicial District Court,
New Mexico House Republicans Urge Governor To Veto HB 9
From New Mexico House Republicans:
SANTA FE — New Mexico House Republicans are urging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to veto House Bill 9, the so-called “Immigrant Safety Act”, following its passage on the Senate floor.
The legislation represents a dangerous step away from public safety, the rule of law, and constitutional cooperation between state and federal government.
HB 9 prohibits public bodies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities to house individuals detained for federal immigration violations and effectively ends New Mexico’s participation in the federal 287(g) Read More
Post’s Kirsten Laskey & Nate Limback Win State Awards
Nate Limback and Kirsten Laskey hold their state photography and review writing awards, recently in the newsroom at the Los Alamos Daily Post. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Daily Post’s Kirsten Laskey and Nate Limback were honored with state writing and photography awards by the New Mexico Press Association. The announcement was made during the New Mexico Press Association’s annual convention in November in Albuquerque.
Laskey was honored for her review of the Los Alamos Little Theatre’s production Read More
At Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Lab Directors Frame Regulatory Reform As Key To Modernization
Lab directors Thom Mason of Los Alamos and Kimberly Budil of Lawrence Livermore discuss efforts to modernize aging nuclear infrastructure and accelerate weapons development during a panel at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit in Arlington, Va. Photo by Marlene Wilden/ladailypost.com
By MARLENE WILDEN
Los Alamos Daily Post
marlene@ladailypost.com
ARLINGTON, VA.—Appearing together at the annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, held Jan. 26-28, the directors of Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories said they are seizing an unusual window of regulatory reform to cut Read More
Bill To Strengthen Burglary Prosecutions Clears Senate
STATE News:
SANTA FE — A bill that updates New Mexico’s burglary laws to give prosecutors clearer tools for holding criminals accountable passed the Senate today with bipartisan support.
Senate Bill 100, sponsored by Senators Cindy Nava, Linda M. Trujillo and Rep. Andrea Romero, closes a loophole in New Mexico’s burglary law.
A July 2018 incident illustrates the urgency of the fix and the flaw in the existing law. On the evening of July 30, 2018, a man climbed over a fence into the backyard of Robert Romero’s residence in Santa Fe and made his way onto the home’s portal—a covered porch in Read More