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A federal review of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, released Oct. 30, says the Valles Caldera Trust, which is in charge of managing the property, has fallen behind on creating a plan to work toward the preserve paying for itself and becoming free of federal financial help by 2015.New Mexican file photo Jack Hagelstein, background, his son Sam ...

Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Franchini is believed to have suffered a fatal heart attack while addressing first-year law students at the University of New Mexico.

But that's not to say Republican Sen. John Ensign has nothing to fear from the Senate Ethics Committee investigation of his actions.

For Immediate Release / October 2, 2009 From the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association P.O. Box 7517 / Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 For further information, contact: Caren Cowan 505.247.0584 phone / nmcga@nmagriculture.org email Yesterday's ruling by United States District Court Judge James O. Browning dismissing a challenge to U.S. Forest ...

Cyr, a new contributing writer on NM Politics.net. The show aired live from the Route 66 Casino on Tuesday, September 15th.

New Mexico's U.S. senators on Thursday announced a plan to create thousands of acres of federally designated wilderness in Do a Ana County, including protection for the Organ Mountains.

Lt. Gen. Paul J. Selva, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, jokes Thursday with participants of the Domenici Public Policy Conference about why he considers himself to be a caffeine junkie.

David Iglesias says U.S. attorneys should be appointed for six-year terms that overlap administrations to minimize the influence of politics on what should be an independent federal office.

Leon Panetta Should Resign... >> Posted By tehranchik 19 hours, 17 minutes ago in Political Opinion > I have come to see very little difference between CIA chief Leon Panetta's reported attempts to intercede in a Dept.

New Mexico's political leaders are mourning the passing of longtime Massachusetts Sen.

Former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., issued a statement Wednesday reacting to the death of Sen.

A crowd of a couple hundred people turned up Monday at a public meeting to discuss health care reform with Sen.

Poring over transcripts of Karl Rove's House Judiciary Committee testimony about his role in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, I came across lots of names familiar in New Mexico political circles.

What's filtering out from congressional investigations into the firing of several United States attorneys in 2006 by the Bush administration isn't exactly supporting the long-held contention of administration officials that the firings were not political.

One of the revelations that came out of this week's release of testimony and documents related to the congressional investigation of the 2006 firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was Heather Wilson's claim that the FBI was looking into a political action committee of New Mexico's state attorney general at the time, Patricia Madrid.

He says Karl Rove's involvement in firing U.S. attorney was more than "casual" Navarrette: Ironically, Rove was architect of Bush's effort to get Hispanic votes Next Article in Politics>> Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette Jr., a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to CNN.com, is the author of "A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey ...

Former White House aide says Wilson complained about - the timing of the courthouse construction indictment' before the election; Wilson says that's not true Former White House aide Karl Rove told a House Judiciary Committee investigator that former U.S. Rep.

Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson says there was an FBI inquiry into ties between her 2006 opponent, Patricia Madrid , and a political action committee as the two duked it out in one of the hottest congressional races in the nation.

Heather Wilson , R-N.M., and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid in mind when discussing former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias' job performance in the weeks before he was fired.

In a just-released interview conducted earlier this month with the New York Times and the Washington Post , former White House adviser Karl Rove appeared to be attempting to portray his involvement in the December 2006 firing of several US Attorneys as merely "peripheral" and not tied to any particular agenda.