New Mexico Government News

It's become an all too familiar tale: A naA ve, amoral Westerner travels to Stalinist North Korea and returns with breathless tales of what a wacky, weird, and wild time he had there! No, we're not just talking about former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.

Two and a-half years is hardly sufficient time for any governor to transform a state with a history of consistently coming in at the bottom of national ratings that measure the well-being of its people.

The Washington State bridge collapse has New Mexicans wondering about bridge safety in their state.

Lovelace Health Plan and two other insurers on Friday lost their appeals to be part of New Mexico's $4 billion Medicaid program beginning Jan.

The New Mexico True campaign is part of the tourism department's push to put New Mexico on the map for travelers across the U.S. Efforts to coordinate with local tourism agencies across the state, such as Farmington's Convention and Visitors Bureau, are already underway.

A lawsuit filed by a victim of a suspected Santa Fe child molester claims police and other authorities repeatedly ignored his and other boy's allegations and that a New Mexico lawmaker used her political influence to protect the suspect.

Gov. Butch Otter and Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board Chairman Stephen Weeg are defending Idaho's work toward a state-based insurance exchange, after a Wall Street Journal article today pointed to decisions by Idaho and New Mexico to make use the federal government's computer platform for the exchange's initial launch as a sign that the two ... (more)

New Mexicans wanting to donate money to victims of the Oklahoma City tornado are being warned by the American Red Cross to be on the lookout for con artists posing as charities.

Gone are the days when New Mexico and Washington were the only states to issue driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally.

New Mexicans qualifying for extended unemployment benefits starting next month will have their payments reduced by 25 percent because of federal spending cutbacks, state officials announced Wednesday.

The organization announced Tuesday the panel will consider how states can improve the delivery of quality health care while controlling the costs of Medicaid, a program jointly financed by states and the federal government to provide medical services for the needy.

Today, Governor Susana Martinez announced that the State of New Mexico is prepared and ready to assist the State of Oklahoma in the ongoing relief and recovery projects following the deadly tornadoes that hit the area on Monday.

A New Mexico judge appears poised to rule that the state can continue to pay for private school students' textbooks.

Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent.

New Mexico's health insurance companies are going to have to come up with more money to cover about 1,500 critically ill people because the federal government has reneged on a guarantee to pay for their care, according to Jason Sandel, a board member of the New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool.

A huge aluminum yucca sculpture, appropriately titled "Aluminum Yucca," in the east mountains of Albuquerque along Interstate 40 and old Route 66 recently marked its 10th year of existence, reported the Albuquerque Journal .

The record setting PowerBall jackpot up for grabs this weekend is at $600 million and counting with New Mexicans doing their part to fatten up that jackpot.

A couple of weeks ago, in a partisan jab, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson accused Texas Sen.

New Mexico is receiving a half million dollars from a Denver-based philanthropic group to expand programs that allow students to receive an associate degree from a college while attending high school.

Democrat Leslie Endean-Singh says jobs will be the centerpiece of her campaign for Congress in New Mexico's 2nd District.