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FILE - New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, New Mexico’s Democratic governor announced plans for a mid-summer special legislative session that focuses on public safety after a long list initiatives related to crime languished during the standard annual session. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

New Mexico special legislative session to focus on public safety initiatives

New Mexico’s Democratic governor is calling a special legislative session focused on public safety initiatives. Gov.
 
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, center, prepares to sign House Bill 129, as bill co-sponsor Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, left, clasps her hands at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Monday, March 4, 2024. Some guns will be banned at voting locations and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven days under measures signed into law Monday by Grisham. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

New Mexico governor signs bill that bans some guns at polls and extends waiting period to 7 days

 
The sun sets on the New Mexico Statehouse in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, as legislators rush to pass bills before the end of a 30-day legislative session. Lawmakers are creating new endowments and trusts to support future spending amid a windfall in state income from oil production. (AP Photos/Morgan Lee)

Legislature and New Mexico governor meet halfway on gun control and housing, but paid leave falters

 
The sun sets on the New Mexico Statehouse in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, as legislators rush to pass bills before the end of a 30-day legislative session. Lawmakers are creating new endowments and trusts to support future spending amid a windfall in state income from oil production. (AP Photos/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico’s Democrat-led House rejects proposal for paid family and medical leave

 
The Mariachi group called Euforia entertain lawmakers prior to the start of the 56th Legislature at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Pictured from left to right are members Lorenzo Lujan, Joseph Varela, and Megan Pacheco. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

New Mexico Senate endorses budget bill emphasizing savings during oil sector windfall

 

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham holds a news conference at the Governor's Office Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M., to announce a 50-year plan for water use in New Mexico. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Spring a leak? Google will find it through a new partnership aimed at saving water in New Mexico

Drought-stricken New Mexico is teaming up with Google to hunt for leaky water pipes using satellites.
 
Julia Bernal, with Pueblo Action Alliance, speaks at a protest against an initiative by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to develop a strategic new source of water, buying treated water that is the byproduct of oil and natural gas drilling, then treating it and selling it back to industry. Around 35 people attended the rally included speakers by Wild Earth Guardians and No False Solutions outside the State Capitol, in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

New Mexico governor proposes $500M to treat fracking wastewater

A proposal by New Mexico’s governor to underwrite the treatment and recycling of oil-industry wastewater is being denounced by environmentalists as a handout to the petroleum industry that will only facilitates more fracking.
 
Otero County Representative John Block (R) is seen in attendance for the start of the 56th Legislature at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

2 New Mexico Republican lawmakers seek to impeach Democratic governor over gun restrictions

Two Republican legislators have filed a resolution aimed at initiating impeachment proceedings against Democratic Gov.
 
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham delivers her State of the State speech for the start of the 56th Legislature at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

New Mexico governor outlines broad legislative agenda for crime, education and climate amid protests

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is embracing major initiatives designed to rein in violent crime, improve public education, boost access to affordable housing and address concerns about climate change and drought.
 
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, center, appears at a news conference, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M., to advocate for a broad suite of legislative proposals on gun control and enhanced penalties for violent crime. The governor is seeking to forge new pathways through the complex landscape of constitutional law in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to expand gun rights. Republicans in the legislative minority vowed to oppose bills that infringe on Second Amendment rights. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico take aim at gun violence, panhandling, retail crime and hazing

New Mexico’s governor is advocating for a broad suite of legislative proposals on gun control and enhanced penalties for violent crime. At a news conference Friday, Gov.
 
Democratic state Rep. Derrick Lente of Sandia Pueblo speaks in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, about tax relief and budget proposals in advance of a 30-day legislative session. The Democratic-led legislature convenes Jan. 16 amid a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to address concerns about education, gun violence, affordable housing and childhood wellbeing in an election years for House and Senate lawmakers. Lente is chairman of the House taxation committee (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico Legislature confronts gun violence, braces for future with less oil wealth

New Mexico lawmakers are searching for solutions to dwindling water supplies, violent crime, homelessness and lagging performance at public schools at a rapid-fire 30-day legislative session.
 
New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Vigil, center, along with Justice Julie Vargas, left, and Chief Justice Shannon Bacon question attorney Holly Agajanian, the governor's chief general counsel, during oral arguments over the challenge to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's executive order prohibiting the carrying firearms in Albuquerque parks and playgrounds, as the justices hear both sides during a Supreme Court hearing, in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

New Mexico justices hear challenge to public health ban on guns in public parks and playgrounds

Advocates for gun rights are urging the New Mexico Supreme Court to block emergency orders by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that temporarily ban firearms at public parks and playgrounds by treating gun violence as a public health crisis.
 
FILE - New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. On Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, New Mexico's governor proposed a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year to shore up housing opportunities, childhood literacy and health care access with additional payouts for electric vehicles purchases. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

New Mexico governor proposes 10% spending increase amid windfall from oil production

New Mexico’s governor is proposing a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year to shore up housing opportunities, childhood literacy and health care access, with additional payouts for electric vehicles purchases.
 
FILE - Protesters place tape over their mouths to express frustration with the appointment of James Mountain to lead the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department at the New Mexico state Capitol building in Santa Fe, N.M., on Friday, March 17, 2023. Mountain is leaving that post less than a year into the job to take on a new role as a policy adviser to the governor. Mountain's new role as senior policy adviser for tribal affairs was confirmed Friday, Dec. 15, by the governor's office in a statement. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

New Mexico names new Indian Affairs secretary amid criticism

The former pueblo leader nominated by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to head the state’s Indian Affairs Department is leaving that post less than a year into the job to take on a new role as a policy adviser to the governor.
 
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Senior Public Safety Advisor Ben Baker, right, provide an update, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on a public health order aimed at reining in gun violence and drugs in the Albuquerque area that the governor describes as an epidemic. New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for a proposal to make assault-style weapons less deadly. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

Governor wants New Mexico legislators to debate new approach to regulating assault-style weapons

New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for an unconventional proposal to make assault-style weapons less deadly. Gov.
 
FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks on Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Under a proposal from Grisham, announced Tuesday, Dec. 5, from the international climate conference in Dubai, New Mexico would underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated water that originates from the used, salty byproducts of oil and natural gas drilling, and help preserve its freshwater aquifers in the process, (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

New Mexico governor proposes $500M to treat fracking wastewater

A proposal from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham would underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated water that originates from oil fields as well as the state’s vast natural underground reservoirs of brine.
 
FILE - About two dozen advocates for Native American communities gathered in downtown Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, when most government offices were closed in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples Day, a state holiday. A group of advocates is calling out New Mexico’s Democratic governor for disbanding a task force that crafted recommendations to address the high rate of killings and missing person cases in Native American communities, Thursday, Nov. 16., 2023. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee,File)

New Mexico creates new council to address cases of missing and slain Native Americans

New Mexico is creating a new advisory council that will be charged with implementing a state plan for responding to cases of missing or slain Native Americans.
 
FILE -Members of the U.S. government's Not Invisible Commission prepare for a field hearing in Albuquerque, N.M. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. A group of advocates is calling out New Mexico’s Democratic governor for disbanding a task force that crafted recommendations to address the high rate of killings and missing person cases in Native American communities, Thursday, Nov. 16., 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Native American advocates seek clear plan for addressing missing and murdered cases

A group of advocates is calling out New Mexico’s Democratic governor for disbanding a task force that crafted recommendations to address the high rate of killings and missing person cases in Native American communities.
 

New Mexico revisits tax credits for electric vehicles after governor’s veto

The administration of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is outlining new priorities for state credits toward the purchase of electric vehicles that would aid low-income residents and well as small businesses.
 
New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at Arcosa Wind Towers Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Grisham traveled to Australia this week to attend a hydrogen summit and meet with related businesses that may have an interest in expanding to New Mexico. At least one hydrogen business is forging plans to expand to New Mexico. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Australian hydrogen company outlines US expansion in New Mexico, touts research

An Australia-based company is announcing plans to build a campus in New Mexico to expand its research into hydrogen as a source for producing heat for industrial applications.
 

New Mexico governor: state agencies must switch to all-electric vehicle fleet by the year 2035

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has ordered state agencies in New Mexico to switch to an all-electric vehicle fleet within the next 12 years.
 
FILE - Albuquerque residents attend a Second Amendment Protest, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. An order by U.S. District Judge David Urias on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, will allow enforcement of a public health order that suspends the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in New Mexico’s largest metro area. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)

Federal judge won’t block suspension of right to carry guns in some New Mexico parks, playgrounds

A federal judge will allow enforcement of a public health order that suspends the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in New Mexico’s largest metro area.
 
FILE - Demonstrators carry their assault rifles to a Second Amendment rally in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico, where the Democratic governor is testing the boundaries of her authority and constitutional law in response to violent crime in the state’s largest metro area. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)

New Mexico governor defends approach to attempted gun restrictions, emergency order on gun violence

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defending her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic by presenting statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings.
 
FILE - Demonstrators carry their assault rifles to a Second Amendment rally in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico, where the Democratic governor is testing the boundaries of her authority and constitutional law in response to violent crime in the state’s largest metro area. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)

Court reviews gun-carry restrictions under health order in New Mexico, as states explore options

Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope in U.S. District Court in New Mexico.
 

New Mexico’s governor tests positive for COVID-19, reportedly for the 3rd time in 13 months

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has tested positive for COVID-19 again, reportedly for the third time in 13 months.
 
FILE - This combo images shows New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, right. Trade missions took Lujan Grisham and counterpart Hobbs to the self-governing island of Taiwan that China would like to see reunited with the mainland. (AP Photo, File)

State governors from Arizona, New Mexico seek stronger economic ties with Taiwan

Governors from the Southwestern United States are pursuing stronger business ties with Taiwan in hopes of attracting new foreign investments and jobs to their landlocked states.
 
FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Grisham on Friday, Sept. 8, issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

New Mexico governor amends order suspending right to carry firearms to focus on parks, playgrounds

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has narrowed an order that broadly suspended the right to carry firearms in and around Albuquerque to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where children and their families gather.
 
Luiz Otero, centre, holds a sign with his son Elias Otero's image, who was shot and killed a couple years ago in Albuquerque, N.M., as people attend a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

Judge blocks suspension of right to carry firearms in public, siding against New Mexico governor

A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across New Mexico’s largest metro area. U.S.
 
Demonstrators display open carry firearms at a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

New Mexico governor’s suspension of right to public carry ignites protests, lawsuits and debates

Some demonstrators defiantly wore holstered handguns on their hips or carried rifles in a rally by gun-rights advocates, protesting New Mexico Gov.
 
Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen calls New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's order suspending the carrying of firearms in the state's most populous metropolitan area unconstitutional during a news conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Allen is among the other municipal law enforcement officials who have said they will not enforce the Democratic governor's order. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Outrage intensifies over New Mexico governor’s temporary gun ban as sheriff vows not to enforce it

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she’d welcome a fight after announcing an emergency order to suspend the right to publicly carry guns around Albuquerque.
 
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces an order restricting people from carrying guns in Bernalillo County for 30 days during a news conference in the Governor's Office on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 in Santa Fe, N.M. Grisham said she expects legal challenges but was compelled to act because of recent shootings, including the death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.(Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Group sues after New Mexico governor suspends right to carry guns in Albuquerque in public

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque has drawn an immediate court challenge Saturday from a gun-rights group.
 
FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Grisham on Friday, Sept. 8, issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has issued an emergency public health order temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County.
 
FILE - Horses compete in the 52nd All-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, Sept. 6. 2010, in Ruidoso, New Mexico. In a letter sent Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, to the New Mexico Racing Commission, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is demanding that the state horse racing regulators make immediate changes to address the use of performance enhancing drugs at the state’s tracks and that they consult with Kentucky, California and New York on best practices to ensure drug-free racing. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

New Mexico governor demands changes to make horse racing drug-free

New Mexico’s governor is demanding that horse racing regulators make immediate changes to address the use of performance enhancing drugs at the state’s tracks.
 
FILE - Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7, 2022. Federal emergency managers said Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, that they’re making more progress in compensating victims of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon wildfires sparked last year by the U.S. Forest Service. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Compensation for New Mexico wildfire victims tops $14 million and is climbing

Federal emergency managers say they’re making more progress in compensating victims of a devastating wildfire sparked last year by the U.S. Forest Service.
 
FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks during a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M., April 7, 2023. New Mexico's motor vehicle division announced Wednesday, July 26, that it has lifted the suspension of driver's licenses for more than 100,000 residents. Bipartisan legislation signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in March called for an end to the widespread practice of suspending driver’s licenses for failure to pay a fine or failure to appear in court. At least 23 other states have taken similar steps to end debt-based suspensions of driver's licenses that can make it harder for individuals to pay off debts and care for their families. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, file)

New Mexico lifts debt-based suspensions of driver’s licenses for 100,000 residents

New Mexico’s motor vehicle division has lifted the suspension of driver’s licenses for more than 100,000 residents under new anti-poverty legislation.
 
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