The meeting Sept. 29 “is a direct response to ongoing public interest and concern regarding New Mexico’s deteriorating access to quality healthcare,” according to a news release from the Senate GOP. buff.ly/NsGuKbc

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.

A new report on NM Medicaid ahead of next week's special legislative session says the program already faces challenges ahead of federal cuts.

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

Housing New Mexico is responding to the increasing cost of homeowners insurance by allowing loan recipients to opt in to high-deductible plans, but that creates its own problems. More here: buff.ly/i0z0edt

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

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.

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

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

“It took a village to make it happen, but one starfish is back in the ocean, at least for now,” said Rebecca Kitson, lawyer for Antonio Chairez Rios, a grandfather of two who has lived in Albuquerque for 20 years. buff.ly/4kbLSiO

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

“We can’t solve any of the greatest problems affecting our country if we all hate each other,” said Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah. buff.ly/rbox80o

About 50 people rallied Thursday outside of the headquarters for the New Mexico Environment Department calling for Secretary James Kenney’s resignation — the latest bout of tensions over proposed changes to regulation of wastewater from oil and gas fields.

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.

The letter Luján and 12 other Senate Democrats signed says FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has made the commission effectively a “roving press censor, targeting broadcasters based on their political commentary.” buff.ly/laAe446

Previous estimates in statewide needs assessments have been less than half that. A 2022 Mortgage Finance Authority analysis said the state leaked 32,000 affordable housing units. buff.ly/5RomZiQ

New Mexico's colleges and universities are asking for more than $1 billion worth of infrastructure projects to be debated in next year's legislative session.

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

In a new column for Source NM's commentary section, longtime immigration lawyer Allegra Love discusses the conditions at ICE detention facilities, and why New Mexico should work to stop their expansion here.

The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government said Tuesday the universities are hiding how they will spend millions of dollars along with “the contractual terms they require students to abide by, meaning there is no way to know whether students are being treated fairly.”

A prominent New Mexico environmental advocacy group has identified wild areas comprising more than 210 square miles across the state that will lose an important defense if a 2024 federal land use rule is rescinded. See our map here of the areas New Mexico Wild is most worried about

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.

“These federal deployments of armed troops — who have no official police powers — violate our Constitution and create needless fear in our communities,” New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said.

New Mexico Pueblo leaders are in Washington, D.C. today continuing to push for protection from drilling at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

We're pleased to carry the latest from Jerry Redfern at Capital & Main, reporting on the cost of NM's orphan oilfields.

Republican leaders in the NM House and Senate said in a letter Monday that they have not been consulted on any of the specifics about the session, and that Democrats’ fears of federal cuts are unwarranted this early. buff.ly/Epivezt

The state of New Mexico is accepting public comments on its universal child care policy and will hold a rulemaking hearing in October.

Court officials and staff on Friday celebrated the launch of a new competency diversion pilot program in Northern New Mexico, the fourth such program in the state.

The search for a leader of a new independent oversight office for children in New Mexico’s custody officially opened Friday, amid turnover in leadership at the state’s troubled child welfare agency.

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.

Bomb threats made to top Democratic lawmakers were all sent via email, and no explosives were found at any of the locations, police said Friday.

Heading to the movies this weekend? A new documentary about Pulitzer Prizer winning editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant is playing in Santa Fe. We spoke with director Bill Banowsky about the movie.

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

New Mexicans deserve the truth about PFAS, columnist Laura Paskus writes in her latest piece for Source NM's commentary section.

In addition to Wirth, House Majority Floor Leader Reena Szczepanski, another Santa Fe Democrat, also received a similar threat, according to a House Democrats spokesperson. More here: buff.ly/MuVz9zK

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

New Mexico's chief medical officer has provided a COVID-19 vaccine prescription for all residents that the department recommends people bring when they go to get a vaccine just to ensure no problems.

In New Mexico, 372 Forest Service employees opted into the deferred resignation program, according to a spreadsheet Heinrich's office provided. A total of 500 USDA employees here opted in. buff.ly/zzsOPhM

NMSU says it's trying to fill gaps in New Mexico's health care worker shortage.

The winners of this year's government transparency and free expression awards include two newspaper publishers, a state lawmaker, the city of Santa Fe's IPRA manager, the editor of the Cibola Citizen and a longtime columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican.

NM had a 9% rise in suicide deaths last year, the health department reported today, and 60% of the deaths involved firearms.

New Mexico Environment Department received a recommendation to adopt the wastewater treatment permit for luxury resort Bishop's Lodge, over objections from Tesuque Village residents which has spilled into the courts and formal hearings on the issue.

A draft copy of the rules that will govern the newly created $20 million Local Solar Access Fund states that 60% of the money must go to New Mexico's rural communities.

NM House candidate Sarah Boses says when government works as intended, “it’s easy to go about our day-to-day lives and not be paying attention to things as closely." "But I believe that democracy is under attack and being undermined, so I can’t just sit back and hope that everything will be OK.”

Even though about one-third of all cattle the United States imports from Mexico come through New Mexico ports of entry, investments and planning about how to stop an ongoing screwworm outbreak are happening outside of the state, Border Authority officials said Tuesday. buff.ly/p08zlf0

NM U.S. Rep. Stansbury: "I did not have it on my bingo card that members of Congress would be using the tools of Congress to shield pedophiles from accountability."