The new rule requires most criminal cases be resolved within seven to 10 months, and follows a pilot program in other areas ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee says selling off public lands will solve the West’s housing crisis. Past sales show otherwise. Read more ...

New Mexico is hoping for less bang ... Colfax and Otero counties banned firework sales determining the dry and hot conditions posed too high a fire risk. Santa Fe County enacted a fireworks ban last ...

Over the last five years, while local jails in the United States have been holding fewer people, New Mexico’s largest jail ...

The race keeps growing,” event organizer Emiel Ross reported. “This year we had 263 registrations.” That’s up considerably from the 220 runners last […] ...

Landscapes have burned throughout history, but the proliferation of larger, more destructive fires forces a reckoning with ...

Santa Fe — The New Mexico Economic Development Department's Outdoor Recreation Division has awarded $2 million in the latest round of the Outdoor Recreation Trails+ Grants, supporting outdoor access, ...

"We urge residents to stay alert." Officials declare emergency as wildfire rips through over 20,000 acres of US land: 'Danger and destruction' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Department of Defense is expanding a militarized zone along the southern U.S. border where troops are authorized to detain migrants for prosecution on charges of trespassing in a national ...

Santa Fe County commissioners are taking heat for a decision Tuesday to host the next public meeting on the controversial Rancho Viejo Solar project at their space-limited commission chambers and ...

No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to holding immigrants for deportation.

HOBBS — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham traveled to the southeast corner of the state Thursday for a town hall in Lea County, in the heart of New Mexico’s Permian Basin ...