Author: Krista Allen

New Mexico lawmakers met for a three-hour special session Monday and approved $162 million in emergency funds to keep food assistance flowing if the federal government continues to block Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments.

Federal environmental crews have started removing more than 13,000 cubic yards of uranium mine waste from the Mesa V complex in the Lukachukai Mountains, marking a new phase in the effort to clean up abandoned mines across Navajo lands.

The Bureau of Land Management has reopened a review of federal protections near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, signaling that the Trump Administration may reverse a 20-year withdrawal that blocked new oil and gas leasing across more than 330,000 acres of public land in northwest New Mexico.

The tribe’s oldest business enterprise, founded more than eight decades ago to preserve craftsmanship and promote economic opportunity for artisans, is confronting serious financial and management problems that have raised concerns about its survival.