New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Friday announced he was opening a formal investigation into allegations that Drug Enforcement Administration officials declined to seize large fentanyl shipments in New Mexico.

Deb Haaland, the former U.S. Interior secretary who soundly secured the Democratic nomination to be New Mexico’s next governor, on Friday endorsed Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard as state party officials prepare to select Haaland’s running mate.

Today @debhaalandnm.bsky.social endorsed land commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard in the search for a new Dem Lt Gov nominee

New Mexico @govmlg.bsky.social asks Attorney General Raúl Torrez to investigate federal agents who let fentanyl cross into the state

A New Mexico judge dismissed a Las Cruces resident’s lawsuit over the controversial Project Jupiter data center under construction, but gave him another chance Meanwhile a number of related suits are pending in court

Four NM counties don’t have a single working attorney

BREAKING: New Mexico SOS Maggie Toulouse Oliver suspends her campaign for Lt. Gov. just weeks after winning Democratic primary in an 80-20 landslide

NEW: The firm behind an award-winning @nmhca.bsky.social social media campaign is now recruiting influencers to promote the controversial Project Jupiter data center Story here, on @sourcenm.com

A New Mexico judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit alleging that state leaders circumvented the public rulemaking process when implementing the new universal childcare program late last year.

A judge tossed a lawsuit against @govmlg.bsky.social’s first-in-the-nation universal childcare program Plaintiffs say they’ll appeal to NM Supreme Court Details here:

Elected leaders in southern New Mexico had previously agreed to host a community town hall for residents to ask questions and provide feedback on Project Jupiter, the controversial data center. Instead, they're getting an open house and career fair.

After months of hearing opposition from residents against a data center/solar array proposal from a Canadian developer, the Socorro County Commission last night unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data centers.

A New Mexico county last night approved a yearlong moratorium on data centers and related infrastructure developments This comes after County Commission Chair Gonzales told me a data center company seeking to build here was “too green — not proven”

Canadian tech CEO Jason Bak pitched a rural New Mexico community on a massive data center, despite never having built one. Now, the project's future could be in jeopardy.

NEW on @sourcenm.com: Canadian tech CEO Jason Bak pitched a rural New Mexico community on a sprawling data center, despite never having built one. The latest, from Source NM, on Bak’s history with data centers, crypto and more, featuring a William Shatner endorsement:

I now never have to play 82-0 ever again

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and former Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull won the Democratic and Republican primary races to be New Mexico's next governor.

NEW: In a decisive victory, former U.S. Interior Secretary @debhaalandnm.bsky.social pitches “a better New Mexico” as the Democratic nominee for governor

Deb Haaland wins Democratic primary to be New Mexico’s next governor Early results showed a commanding lead. I’m at her watch party, where she is expected to speak soon, and will continue posting updates here sourcenm.com/2026/06/02/d...

In non-election news, New Mexico Tech is hitting pause on a controversial data center proposal. The latest, on @sourcenm.com:

A steady stream of voters at the Pinedale Chapter House on the Navajo Nation, including a few who say they are excited to vote in the Democratic primary for Deb Haaland, who would become the nation’s first Indigenous woman governor.

Ever wonder where that early ballot goes? Today I toured Sandoval County’s ballot warehouse for @sourcenm.com — come along and meet the folks who work Election Night and sometimes don’t get to go home until 5 a.m. the next day

Busy as always at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, where poll workers said they had a line of voters waiting when they opened at 7 a.m. We have reporters in ABQ, Rio Rancho, Las Cruces and Gallup as well today, with a story coming this afternoon, and election results this evening at sourcenm.com

Across the state at the polls, NM voters are thinking hard about who the next governor should be.

Election officials in Sandoval County, which includes growing suburban Rio Rancho, said they expect Tuesday’s voter turnout in their New Mexico county will break the record previously set in the 2016 presidential primary election.

The @sourcenm.com team fanned out to five — count em, five! — locales across the state to talk to voters about their perceptions of the biggest races, issues on today’s ballot. See what they had to say here:

🗳️NEW MEXICO🗳️ It’s primary Election Day! Polls are open until 7 p.m. Take the @sourcenm.com Voter Guide to the polls with you — we have interviews/Q&As for every state-level contested primary And stick with us all day for updates and election results

NEW, with @northdakotamonitor.com: NM Oil & Gas Association President “begging” North Dakota conference attendees to oppose @debhaalandnm.bsky.social in the June gubernatorial primary election Details, and Haaland’s response, here at @sourcenm.com:

This is so crushing to see. Rob was one of the nicest people in Arizona journalism, and was a consummate professional -- on top of being one of the best photographers around.

This is heartbreaking news. Rob, to me, was Arizona photojournalism I was lucky enough to travel across the West with him on USA Today assignment. The last time I saw him was at a memorial for our colleague Nick Oza, also gone far too soon Rest in Peace ❤️

Early voting in New Mexico? Go to the polls with the Source NM voter guide! We’ve interviewed every candidate in a contested race and put their answers all in one place

Elected officials in a New Mexico county voted last night to get the ball rolling on a data center moratorium

Hello from downtown ABQ, where more than 100 have gathered to protest a proposed private equity takeover of the state’s largest electric company Story TK on @sourcenm.com

NEW from me & @patricklohmann.bsky.social on @sourcenm.com: Gallup officials voted 4-1 to delay a decision on entering a 110 million gallons/year wastewater agreement with a proposed data center “I understand the appeal,” one councilor said. But “what does this open the door to?”

NEW: Project Jupiter developers look to fuel cells after prolonged pushback to plans to build two gas plants

The State Ethics Commission on Thursday sued Elevate New Mexico for violating the state's lobbyist regulation act with its pro-Project Jupiter campaign Source NM reported on last month

BREAKING: New Mexico State Ethics Commission sues the secretive organization behind the massive pro-Project Jupiter ad campaign My reporting was first to reveal where the mailers/digital ads came from

Tech giants are building AI data centers in places with scarce local news. As a reporter in Texas told Lucy Schiller, “It’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.” www.cjr.org/feature/ai-d...

If you were in Phoenix in 2005 and 2006, you know how horrific the Baseline Killer's crimes were. Mark Goudeau, the serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death, is still proclaiming his innocence. His latest appeal says he was framed -- and that he's intellectually disabled

Thanks to @columjournreview.bsky.social for speaking with me about my @sourcenm.com coverage of Project Jupiter, the proposed OpenAI and Oracle data center complex in southern New Mexico

Source NM sat down with gubernatorial hopeful Sam Bregman, who's currently serving a term as Bernalillo County district attorney. Here's why he thinks he's ready for New Mexico's highest elected office.

Source NM sat down with former U.S. Interior Secretary and New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland to speak about her vision for holding the state's highest elected office — and her plans to fight the Trump administration.

NEW: I sat down with @debhaalandnm.bsky.social to discuss her priorities if she becomes the next governor of New Mexico Read our interview on fighting the Trump admin, bringing Native representation to gov’t and tackling controversial land-use proposals

Former WNMU president Joseph Shepard is heading to trial next year in a case brought by the NM State Ethics Commission unless the two sides settle, court records show

In the first of many gubernatorial candidate profiles, I sit down with Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull, who thinks New Mexico could learn a thing or two from his growing suburb sourcenm.com/2026/04/10/n...

Following a contested NM primary race? Worry not, the @sourcenm.com team and I have you covered! sourcenm.com/2026/04/09/n...

“These products are engineered to taste like candy, designed to be hidden in a backpack and loaded with enough nicotine to create a lifelong addiction,” Torrez said at a Tuesday morning news conference in Albuquerque.

Source NM was at Santa Fe and ABQ No Kings demonstrations today. See the day’s highlights here:

Appeal comes on the heels of NM regulators opening an investigation

Publicly, Project Jupiter has promised 4,000+ construction jobs and 1,500 jobs after, so why did Oracle in a court filing say it anticipated “at least 800” jobs once it’s built? The latest, free to read at @sourcenm.com: