Policies such as a state accessibility act, universal text-to-911 and widespread closed captioning, advocates say, are ...

State data shows a 21% increase in opioid deaths in 2025, with 900 death last year, even as overdose fatalities nationwide ...

The Energy Department has underestimated the potential deadly consequences should plutonium escape the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which produces bomb cores for America’s nuclear ...

Public commenters say the changes would create rigid budgeting requirements and could potentially violate educators' privacy.

A state commission on Thursday approved a plan to upgrade behavioral health services in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, with an emphasis on expanding medication-assisted treatment for ...

The change — which comes as UNM endeavors to double medical school enrollment — has drawn concerns from some clinical faculty ...

The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is facing accusations it refused to take responsibility for a runaway teenage boy despite officials knowing his location, including after he was ...

ALBUQUERQUE — Roughly 83,000 New Mexicans suffered from an opioid use disorder in 2024 — up from 44,000 in 2020, according to state Health Secretary Gina DeBlassie. Overdose-related deaths also have ...

Restaurants statewide will soon front higher costs for late permit renewals, inspection do-overs and some types of applications under upcoming changes to the New Mexico Administrative Code. The ...

Most New Mexicans did not know the name of 6-year-old Estrella Shay Fernandez until about a month after she died in April. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department — and the Taos County ...

The New Mexico Department of Health is warning residents to take precautions against mosquito bites amid the threat of West Nile virus, a bug-borne disease that has been detected in Bernalillo County.