New Mexico Government News

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.

Dr. Barry Ramo has made New Mexicans aware of public health issues for more than 20 years.

The New Mexico Supreme Court is considering whether thousands of state workers covered by union contracts are owed back pay and raises totaling millions of dollars.

A legislative audit report says New Mexicans could face trouble and delays in trying to see a doctor or other providers as demand grows for medical services from an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law.

The main topic of discussion at the Silver City Town Council meeting Tuesday, May 14, was on the resolution to adopt the Silver City Greenways and Big Ditch Master Plan.

Just about every car driving on Albuquerque's streets is supposed to have an emissions test, a two-year certificate that the vehicle isn't polluting too much.

When Jenn Wohletz moved from the Midwest to New Mexico, she discovered Mexican food -- make that New Mexican food -- at Little Anita's, and she got hooked on both red and green chile.

The economy has improved in much of the country, but not in New Mexico, a state executive told legislators on Tuesday.

Bill Olson is not that guy. With a neat brown beard and a fondness for western shirts and jackets, even the occasional bolo tie, he's the quintessential water nerd.

Commissioners in attendance: Jimmy Sandoval, Ernest Dominguez Jr., Dora Salinas McTigue, Robert Lumpkin, Mayor Amiel Curnutt and City Manager Doug Powers.