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NM Crews Fight Wildfires, Smoke Pours Into Capital
Fire crews are battling a pair of wildfires in New Mexico that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke...
Macabre Murder Plot Against Justin Bieber Foiled by Police
As Bieber played two sold-out shows last month at Madison Square Garden, there was no indication of the murder plot against him that had been stopped just days...
Paraplegic Man Survives After Being Abandoned for Three Days in the New Mexico Desert
When Ricky Gilmore recovered himself, he realized he had been flung out of a truck by a couple whom he had wanted to invite home for steaks. Gilmore, who lost...
Why Romney’s Energy Independence Pledge Is Half-Baked
Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations, as he often does, has a level-headed take on Mitt Romney’s new energy plan. Romney announced in a policy...
Summer Heat Wave Roasts the Midwest, Northeast
As temperatures soar from New Mexico to New York City, TIME takes a look at how people are coping with the searing heat across the U.S.
High-Tech Ghost Town in New Mexico Will Cost $1 Billion
A new town located near Hobbs, N.M., will be outfitted with nearly $1 billion worth of cutting-edge technology, from advanced wireless networks to self-flushing...
Stylist Refuses to Cut New Mexico Governor’s Hair Over Gay-Marriage Stance
It isn't glitter-bombing, but it may be just as effective at getting attention for gay rights.
New Mexico Is Stretching, Slowly but Surely
Like a piece of taffy, the state is stretching along the Rio Grande Rift, leaving researchers curious to its cause -- and its effect.
Tech Company to Build Science Ghost Town in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to take part in an...
Listeria Outbreak Prompts Warning, Voluntary Recall of Rocky Ford Cantaloupe
Health officials have issued a warning for cantaloupes from the revered Rocky Ford melon-producing area of the U.S. state of Colorado amid a bacteria outbreak...
Los Alamos Is Only the Latest of New Mexico's Travails
Residents across New Mexico might be wondering what they did to anger Mother Nature. Ever since 2011 arrived on the scene, the weather has been nothing but ugly,...
First Case of Bubonic Plague in 2011 Appears in New Mexico
Turns out, the plague isn't just ancient history. New Mexico health officials recently confirmed the first human case of bubonic plague — previously known as the...
Exclusive Poll: Obama's Swing Leads
An exclusive TIME/CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll reveals that Barack Obama leads John McCain by several percentage points in three crucial battleground...
New Mexico: To Infinity ... And Beyond
In terms of business opportunity in New Mexico, the sky's the limit--literally. As home to the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, the state has the only...
Unfriendly Fire: Flak for New Mexico's Anaya
Young, brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's...
In New Mexico: A Local Voice
This was some time back, Betty Jane Curry was explaining, "back in the hippie days." A long-haired transient blew through town--the little town of Cuba in the...
Environment: New Mexico Prepares For Some Hot Waste
For 10 years, the Department of Energy's half-mile-deep subterranean nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico has been ready for business, but legal challenges and...
