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New Mexico Students Address Natural Disasters Through STEM Innovation At Statewide Competition

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NM STEM News:

The STEM Innovation Network, in collaboration with the LANL Foundation, is proud to announce the 7th annual New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge, a statewide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) competition that empowers high school students to work in teams to design innovative, STEM-based solutions to real-world challenges facing New Mexico.

The 2026 challenge question asks students to lead the state’s response to climate and disaster:

“As natural disasters continue to affect New Mexico (e.g., wildfires, floods, drought, heat waves, dust/windstorms, Read More

Technology & Innovation Office Awards Innovation Infrastructure Grants

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NMEDD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) Technology and Innovation Office has awarded $2.7 million in grants to two organizations to develop and expand the physical infrastructure that supports innovation, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization across the state.

For this inaugural award cycle, Albuquerque-based New Mexico Venture Studios secured $2 million to build a life-sciences lab, and the Santa Fe-based New Mexico Innovation Hub won $700,000 to develop an innovation campus in Santa Fe’s emerging Midtown corridor.

With the Innovation Read More

Los Alamos Daily Post Celebrates 14th Anniversary

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By CAROL A. CLARK
Owner/Publisher
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Daily Post is celebrating its 14th anniversary on Saturday, Feb. 7. It is our continued privilege to bring the latest news to our readers in Los Alamos, across the nation, and around the world every day of the year.

The news team is taking this opportunity to express our appreciation to our insightful columnists, citizen photographers and other contributors who add so much to the content we provide our readers. We are also very grateful to our advertisers – many have supported us faithfully since we first opened our doors. Each Read More

‘We’re Running Out Of Time’: Urgency Builds For Long-Awaited Navajo Code Talkers Museum

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By LILY ALEXANDER
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Advocates of Navajo Code Talkers — U.S. Marines in World War II who relayed critical messages in secret, unbreakable codes based on their Indigenous language — have been waiting seven years for a museum honoring the veterans.

Code Talkers themselves — only two still living — have been waiting far longer.

“They wanted to see this museum since 1971,” said Vern Lee, who serves on the board of the nonprofit Navajo Code Talkers Museum Inc. “That’s over 54 years ago.”

“And we’ve got nothing to show for it,” museum board Secretary and Treasurer Albert Damon chimed Read More

Bill Protecting State’s Clean Energy Progress Advances Out Of Senate Conservation Committee

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — Amidst one of the driest and warmest winters on record, members of the Senate Conservation Committee passed the Clear Horizons Act, legislation that gives New Mexico a responsible plan to continue reducing climate-warming pollution while protecting family budgets, growing local jobs, and preserving the state’s unique way of life.

Sponsored by Senators Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque) and Angel Charley (D-Acoma), and co-sponsored in the House by Representatives Kristina Ortez (D-Taos) and Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe), Senate Bill 18, codifies New Mexico’s existing Read More

New Mexico Could Be First State To Formally Address Forced Sterilization Of Native Women

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By LILY ALEXANDER
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Somewhere between 25% and 50% of Indigenous women were forcibly sterilized in the 1970s with some of the highest concentrations of procedures in New Mexico, research indicates.

Shocking as the statistics are, getting more specific data than that is tricky.

“The information gap is tremendous,” Keely Badger, a human rights advocate who has researched the issue, said Tuesday at the Roundhouse. “But there is now a global movement to bring the heinous nature of these acts, globally, to the forefront.”

New Mexico lawmakers are Read More

New Mexico Teacher Leaders Advocate At Capitol For Math, Attendance, Teacher Prep, School Funding Priorities

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TEACH+ News:

SANTA FE — As New Mexico’s 30-day legislative session gains momentum, Teach Plus New Mexico Policy Fellows and alumni are at the Roundhouse today through Friday with a clear message: when students have strong math instruction, reliable attendance support, well-prepared teachers, and equitably funded schools, economic mobility becomes possible. Over three days, the teachers will meet with legislators to share both what they’re seeing with their students and concrete, research-driven policy recommendations.

“Our teachers are bringing more than their Read More

Gun Control Measure SB 17 Advances Through Judiciary Committee Despite Strong GOP Opposition

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NMSR News:

SANTA FE — In a flagrant disregard for the Second Amendment and the rule of law, the Senate Judiciary Committee today forced passage of Senate Bill 17 (“Stop Illegal Gun Trade Act”). This extreme measure now heads to the Senate Floor, setting the stage for a costly and inevitable legal battle that taxpayers will ultimately fund.

Sen. Crystal Brantley (R-Elephant Butte), the committee’s Ranking Member, led the opposition, dismantling the bill’s premise that targeting the rights of law-abiding citizens and small business owners will somehow deter violent crime.

“SB Read More

New Mexico House Passes $11 Billion Budget, Rejects Paying Counties With ICE Jails

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Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces
Chair
House Appropriations and Finance Committee

By ESTEBAN CANDELARIA
The Santa Fe New Mexican

At the halfway point of this year’s 30-day session, the House approved a proposed spending plan setting aside a little more than $11 billion in recurring spending with boosts in spending for a number of early childhood, health care and public safety initiatives.

House Bill 2, which currently proposes a 2.7% increase in recurring spending for the coming fiscal year, reflects an effort by legislators to make “responsible investments,” Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Read More

Legislative Roundup: 15 Days Left In Session

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Rabbi Celia Surget of Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, second from right, shares a laugh with, from left, Rabbi Berel Levertov of the Santa Fe Jewish Center, Rabbi Jack Shlachter of the Los Alamos Jewish Center and Juan M. Dircie, director of the Jewish Community Relations Coalition of New Mexico, during a panel discussion as part of Jewish Community Day at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Matt Dahlseid/The New Mexican

Santa Fe New Mexican Staff Report:

Shots, shots, shots: Typically, when lawmakers refer to a bill as a “simple” proposal, they’re setting themselves up for Read More