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Bregman: Use Oil & Gas Windfall From Trump’s Illegal War To Send Up To $500 To Every New Mexican

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Sam Bregman

STATE News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Sam Bregman said today that the surge in oil and gas prices and the revenue generated to New Mexico’s state government coffers due to the ongoing Iran conflict presents a rare opportunity to directly help New Mexico families. He is proposing a plan to send reimbursements of up to $500 per family member to New Mexico families earning less than $200,000 per year, using the unexpected revenue windfall.

Global oil prices have surged since the outbreak of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, benefiting major energy-producing states Read More

New Mexico State Police Crime Reduction Operation Leads To Multiple Felony Arrests In San Juan County

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NMSP News:

SAN JUAN COUNTY — Wednesday, March 11, the New Mexico State Police (NMSP) Uniform Bureau partnered with the New Mexico Corrections Department’s Probation and Parole Division’s Security Threat Intelligence Unit (STIU) to conduct a coordinated crime reduction operation in San Juan County focused on locating and apprehending individuals who had absconded from probation and had active arrest warrants.

During the targeted enforcement effort, officers and agents worked together to locate individuals who had failed to comply with the terms of their probation and were actively Read More

Leger Fernández’s Small Cemetery Conveyance Act Passes In The House Of Representatives

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CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House unanimously passed Congresswoman Leger Fernández’s (NM-03) bill, H.R. 4284, the Small Cemetery Conveyance Act. The bill would remove long-standing federal obstacles for rural, Tribal, and land-grant communities to care for ancestral cemeteries located on National Forest lands.

For generations, families laid their loved ones to rest on lands consecrated long before those lands were claimed by the federal government. Too many communities must navigate costly, time-consuming bureaucratic processes simply to maintain the cemeteries Read More

Democracy On The Move: Wonders On Wheels Celebrates America’s 250th In New Mexico

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Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum. Courtesy/NMDCA

NMDCA News:

SANTA FE — In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is traveling a new exhibit, “The Arts of Democracy in New Mexico” beginning this spring.

The all-ages exhibit on the Wonders on Wheels (WoW) RV, highlights ideals of freedom and self-government embedded in the Declaration and traces the development of those same ideals in New Mexico, showing how they have been expressed in art forms such Read More

Luján, Budzinski Introduce Legislation To Strengthen Resilience Of U.S. Food Supply Chains

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U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, introduced the Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act, legislation that would create a new, permanent grant program to provide stabilization payments to farm, grocery, and meatpacking workers in the case a major disaster.

In 2021, the United States Department of Agriculture created the Farm and Food Workers Relief Read More

FBI: Mescalero Man Pleads Guilty To Sexual Abuse

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE – A Mescalero man pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual acts with a minor.

According to court documents, between December 2019, and February 2021, Deverne Torres, Jr., 45, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, performed multiple sex acts with Jane Doe, a minor who had not attained the age of 16.

Torres pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor. At sentencing he faces up to 15 years in prison.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison and Justin A. Garris, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albuquerque Field Office, made the announcement today.

The Las Cruces Resident Read More

North Central Regional Transit District Celebrates National Transit Employee Appreciation Day

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NCRTD News:

ESPAÑOLA — The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) Blue Bus will recognize the dedicated transit professionals who keep the Blue Bus system running by celebrating National Transit Employee Appreciation Day Wednesday, March 18, 2026, across North Central New Mexico.

The day honors the operators, dispatchers, mechanics, and staff who provide safe, reliable, and accessible public transportation services to communities throughout the region. Blue Bus customers and the community are invited to send greetings and thank you notes to Blue Bus employees by visiting Read More

NMDOT Launches Platform For Transportation Projects

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NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) has launched a new interactive digital platform that makes it easier for the public to explore transportation projects planned across New Mexico.

The electronic Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (eSTIP) uses Geographic Information System technology to display projects on a dynamic, statewide map. Users can zoom into specific regions, click on individual projects for details and search projects by location. Project information can also be exported into Excel or PDF formats for reporting and analysis. Read More

Gomez: NM Needs Action On MMIWR Crisis – Not Symbolism

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Scene from a protest outside UNM Law School in 2023. Courtesy photo

Women, children and elders protesting outside UNM Law School in 2023. Courtesy photo

By DARLENE GOMEZ
MMIWR Activist/ Attorney

For decades, Indigenous families across New Mexico have lived with a heartbreaking reality: daughters, sisters, and mothers along with sons, fathers, uncles and cousins vanish, and too often the system fails to find them or bring justice. As an attorney representing families of Murdered, Missing, Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR), I have sat across kitchen tables with parents who still leave Read More

Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area To Host Herbal Remedy Garden Workshop At Los Luceros Historic Site

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Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area is hosting a hands-on workshop, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 21, at Los Luceros Historic Site. Courtesy/NRGNHA

NMDCA News:

In honor of Women’s History Month this month, Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) offers a hands-on workshop that remembers the women who carried seeds from pueblo to village, and farm to ranch.

Learn to plant the same medicinal herbs used by generations of healers and families in Northern New Mexico in a hands-on workshop hosted by Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Read More