It's about 12:45 p.m. on a Thursday. Do you know what your state lawmakers are doing? Catch up on the special session, which is likely to end today.

NM Democratic leaders say they are keeping a tight leash on bills for the special legislative session and they hope to wrap by Thursday. Here's what's happening so far.

New Mexico's special legislative session starts at noon on Wednesday. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham added a couple of topics to the agenda.

Here's a refresher on the facts and figures for New Mexico's SNAP program ahead of tomorrow's special session.

Federal cuts to Medicaid and food stamps prompted New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to call a special session beginning Wednesday, but expiring health insurance tax credits are also on the agenda. Here's what to know: buff.ly/8k1Pgcu

Here's a closer look at the vaccine policy landscape as lawmakers look to make changes to state law at the upcoming Oct. 1 special session.

New Mexico lawmakers will convene Wednesday to address upcoming federal impacts to the state’s Medicaid program, including funding cuts and new work requirements. Here's a brief introduction to some of the facts and figures: buff.ly/O4r52Vp

A wildland firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while fighting a wildfire in Washington state has been released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his attorneys said Wednesday. stateline.org/2025/09/24/f...

The Ethics Commission lawsuit's allegations, if true, could violate a law the Legislature passed earlier this year that prohibits state employees from sharing private personal information, including immigration status, with non-state actors, including ICE. buff.ly/DLzXUyu

New Mexico lawmakers plan to address vaccination policy alongside Medicaid and food assistance changes in the upcoming special session.

Lawyers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency intend to appeal a judge’s ruling that orders the agency to award hundreds of millions of dollars to Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire victims for the emotional toll of the 2022 wildfire, according to recent court filings. buff.ly/aWan8Bt

In fire-scarred Lincoln County, a historic fort gets yet another chapter. via @sourcenm.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-...

New Mexico’s National Guard Adjutant General announced Monday that guardsmen will soon be deployed to Española, a town of roughly 10,000 people in Northern New Mexico whose leaders recently asked for state help dealing with a crime, drug and housing crisis. buff.ly/yXNUUoR

New Mexico's methane emissions are lower than Texas, but not low enough for the state to meet its 2030 climate goals.

With just a week left before a special New Mexico legislative session begins, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she’s been “disappointed” that thus far Senate leadership in her own party has declined to include interstate medical compacts on the agenda.

What's really going on with all the back channeling over oil and gas wastewater? Source NM and Capital & Main teamed up to investigate.

The Camp Fire that barreled toward Fort Stanton over Memorial Day Weekend posed an urgent question: Did stewards of the historic site do enough to reverse roughly two centuries of mismanagement? buff.ly/kBPMEOj #nmfire

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is asking lawmakers to put health care worker compacts on the agenda for the short legislative session on Oct. 1

A New Mexico arts organization on Thursday said it plans to decline a longstanding state grant that relies on federal funding, citing a new anti-DEI provision it says risks artistic freedom.

New Mexico's senior senator urged the U.S. Forest Service to extend public comment on the Trump administration's proposal to rescind a policy preventing road construction and logging in wild spaces.

“Mother Nature really gave it to us that day,” said Mykel Diaz, mayordomo of the Acequia de los Martinez Arriba near Chimayó, of the Aug. 29 flood. buff.ly/FdyyHZN

Charges are now filed against Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man accused of shooting and killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk during a crowded outdoor speaking event, including a count of aggravated murder. Prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty.

New Mexico probation officers repeatedly provided immigration status information to federal immigration authorities, including after the Legislature made such a practice illegal this year, according to a new lawsuit from the state Ethics Commission.

New Mexico tribal leaders will head to Washington DC later this week to push members of Congress to extend protections from oil and gas development around Chaco Canyon.

The line at a local food bank’s weekly distribution in Albuquerque’s International District has increased in the last few years, organizers say, as neighbors in nearby homes join the queue alongside the growing population of unhoused residents. buff.ly/IMBj7JI

Breaking: A Santa Fe school evacuated Thursday afternoon due to a bomb threat at New Mexico Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth’s Museum Hill neighborhood home nearby, Chris Nordstrum, the communications director for Senate Democrats, told Source New Mexico. buff.ly/ZycjbCR

UPDATED: A juvenile male suspect died on Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that he sustained after shooting and injuring two fellow students at Evergreen High School, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.

Charlie Kirk dies after shooting at Utah Valley University utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/10/c...

Is your local supermarket at risk of closing thanks to Trump’s SNAP cuts? Read this article and check out the map by Source NM here: sourcenm.com/2025/09/05/b...

New Mexico already waives child care copays for families making up to 400% of the federal poverty level. By Nov. 1, all families will receive free child care assistance regardless of income level, state officials say.

New Mexico residents should have an easier time accessing COVID-19 vaccines, the state health department announced on Friday.

Check out Source's map of which NM groceries, convenience stores or other food retailers are at "high risk" of losing significant revenue due to upcoming SNAP cuts. It's more than half of the state's 1,700 SNAP retailers. buff.ly/OCcjfhe

Gamez Lira is being held at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico, a facility that houses the majority of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees held in New Mexico. buff.ly/8QShmfB

Theresa Casados, the third person to lead New Mexico's child welfare department in the six years, is retiring, effective today.

Zina Crum worries about moving the State Fair from its home of 87 years in the heart of Albuquerque, as lawmakers are now considering. “The State Fair is going to lose the State Fair-ness," she said. More here: buff.ly/ftdGDmw

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will convene lawmakers on Oct. 1 for a special legislative session, her office announced Thursday, to tackle federal cuts to Medicaid and other services, among other issues. More here: buff.ly/rf4KCvX

In interviews with Source NM, criminal justice experts said cash bail disproportionately holds poor people and people of color in jail; the vast majority of people released before their trials don’t go on to commit new crimes; and holding people in jail tends to increase crime, not reduce it.

Parties in a legal dispute over Rio Grande water filed settlement documents Friday which they say will hopefully dismiss the case mired in the U.S. Supreme Court for more than a decade.

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Federal officials want New Mexico voter rolls — what do they really want?

The roughly two-hour visit marked the culmination of several days of controversy and follows a July announcement office that the NM governor is mulling adding legislation banning ICE detention centers in the state to a special session agenda. buff.ly/iwPjETX

A meeting of a key New Mexico legislative committee is occurring right now in Las Cruces with no Republicans present. Here's how that happened: buff.ly/f4iaa3J

“The reasons, Noem said, are twofold. First, it will prevent rust. Second, she said, it will burn the skin of anyone trying to climb over.” Via @prokopdani.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/08/19/u...

In their resignation letters on Monday, two Albuquerque-area Democratic state lawmakers cited the national redistricting controversy as the reason for their departure from a task force devoted to reforming how the state’s political maps are made.

Lawmakers say the continued revenue increase provides cushion against federal cuts, uncertainty buff.ly/63P8OBH

The move comes as a panel of federal judges decline to approve, or replace, Ryan Ellison as chief prosecutor in New Mexico, and drew criticism from U.S. Senators from New Mexico who called it "a deliberate attempt to circumvent" congressional or judicial oversight. sourcenm.com/2025/08/15/d...

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A failed Republican political candidate whose conspiracy theory about a stolen state House election prompted him to orchestrate shootings at homes of elected New Mexico Democrats will spend 80 years in prison, a federal judge ordered Wednesday. sourcenm.com/2025/08/13/f...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday announced an emergency declaration aimed at dealing with rising crime in the small Northern New Mexico city of Española.

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