The four Democrats running for reelection to federal office in New Mexico all have comfortable fundraising leads over their Republican challengers, although the 2nd Congressional District race is drawing big national spenders on both sides. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/electio...

A group of event planners are bringing a first taste of Asian night market culture to Santa Fe this weekend. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Santa Fe police arrested a man and a woman Thursday after a SWAT operation at a hotel on Cerrillos Road in connection with a police investigation into alleged drug dealing. sfnm.co/4wg57zc

OUR VIEW: Independent news reporting found Hispanic and Native students within Gallup-McKinley County Schools are disproportionately disciplined in comparison to their white classmates. Students deserve equal treatment. Schools must deliver. sfnm.co/4fpNrda

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on Thursday introduced legislation that would reverse rate cuts for veterans’ home healthcare services and require congressional notification of any future reductions. sfnm.co/44B4nZ6

Wellness Wire: Three questions on zoonotic diseases with Dr. Erin Phipps, state public health veterinarian for the New Mexico Department of Health. sfnm.co/4yt26N8

Los Alamos National Laboratory soon will serve as home for a pair of new supercomputers that will accelerate the lab’s scientific and engineering efforts, federal officials announced Thursday. sfnm.co/4aUoVzw

RINGSIDE SEAT: Raul Turrieta hopes to work on crime bills and tax policies if he reaches the state Capitol. A Democrat, Turrieta for the first time is running for an office other than county assessor. He is challenging Republican Rep. Luis Terrazas. sfnm.co/4wPGedr

The state Early Childhood Education and Care Department wants to make it easier for childcare facilities to get up and running to fulfill its promise of free childcare to New Mexico families. It has launched two new initiatives to support those efforts. sfnm.co/4aUnz7U

Millions of dollars have flowed to local governments across New Mexico in the last three years for addiction treatment and other measures to mitigate the state's deadly, decades-long opioid epidemic. Much of that funding remains unspent. sfnm.co/3REspQ4

This year’s fourth annual JB White Memorial Tournament will incorporate more sites than last year, when it was at just Santa Fe High, Capital and ATC. It's part of JB White Foundation's efforts to expand community relationships and deliver on its mission. sfnm.co/4wPBZyw

If Wednesday was for the boys, Thursday was for the big dogs. With the Mountain West Conference Football Media Days wrapping up, it was time for the league’s 10 head coaches to grab the mic and tell their stories. Jason Eck was the star of the show. sfnm.co/44E5wPF

The New Mexico Wildlife Center in Española is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend. Kathleen Ramsey founded the center in 1986, initially working to rehabilitate raptors and birds of prey, but she kept adding new species. sfnm.co/4vAtx5a

The Reading is Magic summer literacy camp from nonprofit Reading Quest pushes kids’ abilities and confidence by helping them develop and perform in a film. The camp is now in its 15th year at Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences. sfnm.co/4gJlfnY

Although neighbors of Fort Marcy park like some proposed upgrades to the space, they continue to decry a proposal to double the size of the bridge between the park’s ballpark and Magers Field, worried it will turn the park into an event center. sfnm.co/44E14Ar

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management took another step this week to reopen federal lands surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to oil and gas drilling and other mineral extraction. The decision was met with swift criticism. sfnm.co/44BJo8v

On the latest episode of the “Around the Roundhouse” podcast, Tina Cordova discusses with host Daniel J. Chacón her decades of work with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and the continued fight for New Mexicans. sfnm.co/3QYLlZF

A Santa Fe man whose murder conviction was overturned last year has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2018 shooting death of a local real estate executive. sfnm.co/4pq58hb

Local law enforcement agencies conducted a SWAT operation Thursday afternoon at a hotel in Santa Fe and arrested a number of people, police said, although it wasn't yet clear what the operation yielded. sfnm.co/4f6slBA

Joseph Jones was convicted again in late May of shooting Robert Romero, a 52-year-old married father of two and chief financial officer for a local real estate firm, during a struggle in Romero's backyard.

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on Thursday introduced legislation that would reverse rate cuts for veterans' home healthcare services and require congressional notification of any future reductions.

Local law enforcement conducted a SWAT operation Thursday afternoon at a hotel in Santa Fe and arrested a number of people, police said, although it wasn't yet clear what the operation yielded.

Los Alamos National Laboratory soon will serve as the home of a pair of new supercomputers that will accelerate the lab’s scientific and engineering efforts, federal officials announced Thursday. sfnm.co/3T51rl4

Nearly half of the New Mexico cities and counties that have received opioid settlement payments from drug makers and marketers since 2023 hadn't reported any spending by the end of fiscal year 2025, a new report says. sfnm.co/4pmh6IB

OUR VIEW: The loss of St. Catherine Indian School is painful. So is losing a beloved neighborhood school. Let’s make the loss of these cherished institutions mean something. Build affordable housing. sfnm.co/3RcVXUQ

Earth, Wind and Fire: The Carson National Forest and Las Trampas Land Grant entered into a deal Wednesday to allow some wood processing immediately and cooperation on additional projects in the future. sfnm.co/4plMbw4

Pasa Plus: Check out what's going on in and around Santa Fe this weekend. sfnm.co/44xnwva

The now-former president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe has been impeached and removed from office by the tribal council after being placed on leave over allegations of nepotism and mismanagement of tribal funds. sfnm.co/4feBbvP

New Mexico’s centrist third party filed a lawsuit this week against the Secretary of State’s Office challenging what it calls the “severe and unequal burdens” imposed on minor parties attempting to get on the ballot. sfnm.co/4w7844L

Attorney General Raúl Torrez in a letter this week wrote the New Mexico Department of Justice will pursue “all available legal remedies” if the U.S. Department of Justice does not grant access to unredacted files about Jeffrey Epstein and Zorro Ranch. sfnm.co/4feimJi

As much as he has enjoyed giving back to the community and spreading his love for basketball at kids’ skills camps since moving back to Albuquerque this spring, Donovan Dent cannot escape the itch he still has for the game. sfnm.co/3T2h8cJ

Five University of New Mexico football players were named to the preseason all-Mountain West Conference team in voting released by the league Wednesday morning during the opening salvo of the league’s annual Media Days in Las Vegas, Nev. sfnm.co/4wNAYXL

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that attempted to obtain unredacted New Mexico voter registration data. sfnm.co/3TjEsCL

A state education leader and AI CEO defended Wednesday the use of an AI software for K-2 literacy assessments and instruction. A growing movement of parents have said they're worried about the software's effectiveness and data privacy. sfnm.co/3T8Mz56

NEW: The BLM announced Wednesday it is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment for the proposed revocation of a 2023 order that closed about 336,404 acres near Chaco Canyon to future mining and mineral leasing for 20 years. sfnm.co/4w7opGG

Santa Fe police are charging a woman with driving while intoxicated after, they say, she crashed her SUV into a hotel room at the Econo Lodge Inn Wednesday morning. sfnm.co/4fCSkRk

A Southern New Mexico newspaper that appeared destined to join a long list of those in the state that have ceased operations in recent years has been resurrected. sfnm.co/4youqAn

La Cienega and La Cieneguilla, rural communities southwest of Santa Fe, have seen 16 significant power outages in the past year. The outages have left area residents and the county commission with concerns about public health and safety. sfnm.co/3RFieL5

Isaac Apodaca didn’t wield the 3-foot sword used in the grisly slaying of Grace Jennings on Santa Fe’s south side in 2022. Still, prosecutors convinced a jury he had manipulated his girlfriend to carry out the killing. sfnm.co/4brVK6W

Santa Fe police are charging a woman with driving while intoxicated after, they say, she crashed her SUV into a hotel room at the Econo Lodge Inn Wednesday morning.

New Mexico's centrist third party filed a lawsuit this week against the Secretary of State's Office challenging what it calls the "severe and unequal burdens" imposed on minor parties attempting to get on the ballot.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez told the U.S. Department of Justice this week the state will pursue "all available legal remedies" if the agency doesn't turn over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files by the end of the month.

A Southern New Mexico newspaper that appeared destined to join a long list of those in the state that have ceased operations in recent years has been resurrected.

NEW: A jury on Wednesday afternoon found Isaac Apodaca, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of 21-year-old Grace Jennings. Prosecutors successfully argued he manipulated another woman to carry out the killing with a sword. sfnm.co/4wCtUNm

NEW: More than 20,000 PNM customers in Santa Fe in a wide area of the city and some areas just outside of it lost power Wednesday afternoon. The cause of the outages is not yet known. sfnm.co/45b9oHX

OUR VIEW: Santa Fe Public Schools hasn’t responded to what will happen to the 7-year-old hygiene products and declined to say how many remain. Here’s a suggestion: Toss them. The risk of harming young women with potentially faulty products is not worth it. sfnm.co/44wLRkA

The Roundhouse Report: The New Mexico Economic Development Department on Tuesday announced it had awarded $1.2 million to six companies in an effort to grow the state's quantum sector. sfnm.co/4pmuqgd

RINGSIDE SEAT: At least conservatives have stopped grousing about their weak leadership. The Republican Party of New Mexico has gone from chaos under a disrespected chairwoman to having no leader. The spot won't be filled until after voters choose a new governor. sfnm.co/4vzXNgG

A Santa Fe County man faces new charges partly stemming from a chaotic incident in early June during which witnesses said several armed men engaged in a scuffle in the small community of Madrid before at least one shot was fired. sfnm.co/3QZcZ8R

A decadeslong fight for the federal government to compensate people sickened by nuclear weapons work would get a big boost under legislation a New Mexico congressman and others plan to introduce this summer. sfnm.co/3T5YReu