I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday proposed creating "world-class" exhibit center on the Expo New Mexico fairgrounds in the heart of Albuquerque to replace Tingley Coliseum and the Downs racetrack, the latter of which is moving operations to Moriarty, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The governor has asked Finance Secretary Katherine Miller and Expo General Manager Judith Espinosa to come up with a proposal for a public-private partnership to "figure out a different way of doing things" on the 236-acre site.
A 21-year-old Mexican national was airlifted from the Mexican port of entry of Columbus, N.M. to a hospital in Las Cruces after apparently being tortured in what a Luna County Sheriff said appears to be related to the ongoing war between Mexican drug cartels, according to the Deming Headlight.
At least nine men were shot dead and the ankle of a 7-year-old girl was nearly severed in continued violence Wednesday night and Thursday in the Mexican border city of Juarez, the Las Cruces Sun News reports.
Meanwhile, plans continued for a cross border concert by a New Mexico State University choir, despite wariness about the violence in Juarez. "I would be the last person to say that Juárez is not a violent place because, my God, it is," one of the singers, an NMSU librarian, told the Sun News. But the message she wants the performance in Juarez to send is simple: "To heck with you people trying to destroy the culture and the city."
The Santa Fe New Mexican says the Jemez Mountains could be the "canary in the coal mine" in terms of climate change, citing a report that says the mountain range had the greatest average increase in temperature and drop in moisture since the 1970s in the state — changes that likely contributed to the 2000 Cerro Grande fire.
A Navajo code talker who used his native language to confuse America’s enemies during World War II died on Memorial Day, the Gallup Independent reports.
