Environmental regulators and health officials in New Mexico are warning hunters that harmful chemicals known to cause cancer in people have been found at record levels in birds, small mammals and plants at a lake near Holloman Air Force Base.

The Tusas Mountains are to be hit with between 5 and 10 inches of snow with its peaks getting up to 12 inches, forecasters say.

A bill package that would give the state of New Mexico authority over pollution control and discharge into the state’s waterways – and allow creation of a new permitting system – is gaining traction in the legislature.

The New Mexico legislature can only watch and wait for a formal resolution of the issues caused by a temporary federal funding freeze.

A winter storm will move into New Mexico Wednesday. Snow could bring travel impacts to western and northern New Mexico through Thursday. Warmer weather continued to move into New Mexico Monday. This also came with breezy winds,

The New Mexico strike team of firefighters are back in the Land of Enchantment after a southern California deployment.

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Google said it would rename the body of water to “Gulf of America” after it is updated in the U.S. government system in response to Trump’s executive order.

Local leaders in Texas and New Mexico are voicing their concerns over President Donald Trump's decision to temporarily freeze federal grants and loans.

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The University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and the New Mexico BioPark Society have announced the launch of a new website, the New Mexico Rare Arthropod Resource (NM-RARe).