Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham signed legislation on Monday that legalizes recreational cannabis and erases many past criminal convictions.

The arrival of about 25 motorcycles announced the donation of 30,000 non-perishable meals for migrants being processed at a facility in New Mexico. Las Cruces Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Daniels, the emergency operations commander on scene, said the donation was a welcome surprise.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has ordered New Mexico to join a national coalition of states seeking to combat the effects of climate change, as part of a far-reaching plan to shift the state toward a renewable energy economy. At a news conference in the state Capitol, the Democratic governor described the order as a “game-changer” that outlines broad, state-level initiatives to make up for a lack of federal action on climate change.

A New Mexico observatory aimed at unlocking the sun's secrets has been shut indefinitely by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation over an undisclosed security issue, leaving it at the center of its own mystery. The Sunspot Solar Observatory, near Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range, sits atop the Sacramento mountains in southern New Mexico. It has been closed since the FBI evacuated staff on Sept. 6.

There many benefits to belonging to a credit union. Here are a few that U.S. Eagle Federal Credit Union in New Mexico want to remind you about.

A teenager faces a first-degree murder charge after police say he shot and killed another 15-year-old for not having the $40 he was owed. The Albuquerque Police Department arrested Brandon Caballeros in Monday morning's fatal shooting of Carlos Rodriguez at the Wyoming Plaza Mobile Home Park near Wyoming Boulevard and Trumbull Avenue.

New Mexico is a battleground in the fight over once public waterways, sparking fears it could set a national precedent

Today, a legislative committee voted in favor of taxing and regulating marijuana in New Mexico. On a vote of 4-3 New Mexico State Senator Ortiz y Pino’s (D-12-Bernalillo) Senate Joint Resolution 4 (SJR4) passed the Senate Rules Committee. Senators Lopez, Ortiz y Pino, Ivey-Soto, and Steinborn all voted in favor of the resolution; Senators Papen, Moores, and Pirtle voted against.

Two students were killed at a New Mexico high school this morning, according to the New Mexico State Police. The suspected shooter is also dead, the state police wrote on Twitter Thursday. No other injuries were reported, the state police said on Twitter, adding that "police believe there are no other credible threats to students."

One of the nation’s most significant cultural sites could be at risk from planned oil and gas extraction nearby. By Richard Moe.

A former New Mexico education official recounts the secrecy behind the state's anti-science standards. By Andy Kroll.

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, has long depended on tourism. Now spaceflight has been folded into its mythos, at the dawn of the Second Space Age. By Jack Murphy.

Experts say a petroglyph in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon may depict a solar eclipse from 920 years ago.

Two people have died in pursuit of Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure. New Mexico’s Chief of Police is pleading with him to call it off. But how dangerous is it, really? By Peter Frick-Wright. (June 28, 2017)

A 10-year-old boy has discovered a million-year-old fossil by tripping over it while hiking in New Mexico with his family. Local media KVIA reported that Jude Sparks was exploring the region's Organ Mountains with his parents and two brothers, playing with walkie talkies, when he fell over something sticking out of the earth. They said he fell right on his face and opened his eyes to the remains of an elephant-type creature that was later identified as a million-year-old stegomastodon, an ancestor of modern elephants.

Gas compressors in New Mexico seem to mess with some arthropods’ behavior. 

President Trump’s decision to review the designations of 27 national monuments has raised fears of a corporate giveaway – and the pueblos of the Rio Grande valley are worried. By Edward Helmore.

The ancient Puebloan people, numbered in the thousands, could not have grown enough food where they lived in New Mexico, likely forcing them to import their sustenance, a CU Boulder scientist has discovered.

How Albuquerque [New Mexico] figured out how to really help its homeless population. And save money in the process. By Colin Woodard.

Transcripts of police interviews with Michelle Martens, the mother of the 10-year-old New Mexico girl who was brutally raped and killed in August, reveal that she told investigators different stories before allegedly admitting she did nothing as her daughter was tortured by her boyfriend and his cousin, even as the child begged them to stop.