New Mexico

President Joe Biden visited Arizona Tuesday to designate a new national monument spanning about 1 million acres over the state’s northwest region. The new monument, named Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon…

The U.S. Forest Service revealed Monday the agency caused a New Mexico wildfire in the spring of last year that burned across 60 square miles and almost reached Los Alamos. The Cerro Pelado fire, which burned in April 2022 under dry and…

House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are probing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for potential conflicts of interest in high-stakes decisions. On Monday, 11 GOP lawmakers sent a letter to the secretary of the Interior…

President Joe Biden’s Department of the Interior took another step this week to lock up 30 percent of the nation’s land and waterways by 2030. On Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a 10-mile radius around the Chaco Cultural…

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn’t seem very interested in hearing from constituents who live near public land. On Wednesday, the agency released its schedule for a tour of Western high mountain states during which BLM officials…

When Alec Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly shooting and killing his cinematographer, the Santa Fe district attorney declared: “No one is above the law and justice will be served.” As it turned out, the rich…

In 2005, Annie George bought land near tiny Tyrone adjoining the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico. To secure her horse, she fenced her acreage with a gate on the road that crossed her property and accessed the national…

On March 30, New Mexico Governor and Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham signed one of the worst election bills in the U.S. country into law. The bill, dubbed the “New Mexico Voting Rights Act,” is a massive expansion of Democrat-backed…

A New Mexico School Boards Association instructor sees no role for parents in guiding their children’s public school education. On Tuesday, the parental rights group “Freedom Families United” published audio tape of a New Mexican school…

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit with the New Mexico secretary of state for charging more than $5,000 for a copy of the state’s voter rolls. PILF alleges that New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is…