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New Mexico’s three members of Congress joined survivors of radiation exposure Tuesday and vowed to revive and expand a federal program to compensate downwinders and uranium miners in the state.
You can’t count on grizzly bears to help out with research in paleontology.
Signs are being restored along Central Avenue. Events are being planned. A website is in the works.
At least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools operated or supported by the federal government.
Marla Matkin admires the adventurous spirit and wanderlust that sparked Marion Sloan Russell to travel the Santa Fe Trail five times, starting when she was 7. "She said she would rather be in a wagon going somewhere than on white wings going …
The 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the first nuclear explosion, is Tuesday. Here are five things to know about the historic detonation.
The 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test is less than a week away, and one New Mexico senator is still pushing to expand a federal program that would compensate New Mexico downwinders.
In 2020, Amy Gauthier was driving from Louisiana to Utah when she found herself in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Unexpectedly.
Two weeks ago, David Marler received four separate collections of materials from Ohio to add to the many thousands of Unidentified Flying Object files he houses in an addition to his Rio Rancho home.
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire burned over 300,000 acres two years ago, becoming the largest fire in New Mexico history.
PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA — When a 60,000-acre tract of prime ancestral land hit the market in 2016, Pueblo of Santa Ana leaders snapped it up in just 30 days.
Marla Matkin admires the adventurous spirit and wanderlust that sparked Marion Sloan Russell to travel the Santa Fe Trail five times, starting when she was 7. "She said she would rather be in a wagon going somewhere than on white wings going …
The 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test is less than a week away, and one New Mexico senator is still pushing to expand a federal program that would compensate New Mexico downwinders.
In 2020, Amy Gauthier was driving from Louisiana to Utah when she found herself in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Unexpectedly.
Two weeks ago, David Marler received four separate collections of materials from Ohio to add to the many thousands of Unidentified Flying Object files he houses in an addition to his Rio Rancho home.
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire burned over 300,000 acres two years ago, becoming the largest fire in New Mexico history.
PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA — When a 60,000-acre tract of prime ancestral land hit the market in 2016, Pueblo of Santa Ana leaders snapped it up in just 30 days.
It was 1973. The city of Albuquerque was planning a new park in the near North Valley. When tractors started digging trenches for the sprinkler system, bones and baby slippers were found at the site.
A federal program to compensate people who got sick after being exposed to radiation through uranium mining or nuclear weapons testing is ending. A group of bipartisan House members, including New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, are pushi…
It was the noise that John Shelby remembered most vividly, the whine and roar of aircraft engines, the thunderous boom of big guns from destroyers, the mechanized rattle of German machine guns, the explosive babble of erupting bombs, a frenzi…
New Mexicans are likely familiar with Elephant Butte Dam and Abiquiu Dam, but there are hundreds of other dams across the state.
NEW YORK — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn’t mean his camp…
Albuquerque resident John Hart was preparing a transcript for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans when he interviewed former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall about his World War II experiences in 2004. He came across the in…
La Bajada Hill is familiar to I-25 commuters traveling from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, but the road in place now replaced an older and more treacherous route up the hill.
BELEN — It was June 1969, and U.S. Naval Reservist and Belen native LeRoy Sanchez had been in Vietnam for about week. Stationed at Camp Tien Sha, Sanchez, who was drafted into the service, spent the first few days of his one year of duty doi…
Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue made headlines this week with a plan to buy the first hybrid firetruck in New Mexico. Here is a look at four other times firetrucks grabbed headlines in the Albuquerque Journal.
New Mexico is getting $14.7 million in federal dollars for five water projects to address drought, part of $522 million in drought funding for 57 projects across the western United States that Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Dan…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase "War is hell."
New Mexico’s congressional delegation is putting pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass legislation that would expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA.
New Mexico Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced Thursday that Bureau of Land Management lands near Placitas will be ineligible for mineral extraction for the next 50 years.
MEXICO CITY — Feral cats have long wandered the gardens and elegant halls of Mexicos' presidential palace. But recently the 19 palace felines made history when the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared them to b…
Dozens gathered at the African American Performing Arts Center in Albuquerque on Thursday evening — 56 years to the day that civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis hotel.
It takes strategies and tactics of all kinds to win wars — especially a conflict such as World War II, which involved most of the globe’s countries and all its major powers.
TOMÉ — A hazy moon lit the arduous path up Tomé Hill on Friday morning. A rooster crowed and a plane buzzed overhead. At 6 a.m., a few walkers making Good Friday pilgrimages could already be seen climbing the rocky path up the hillside, their…
Road trips were a big deal with Keith Edwin Gawith Jr. Traveling out of Albuquerque, he and his wife, Ruth, eventually motored to all 50 states.
On Good Friday in New Mexico, thousands will rise early to pilgrimage to holy sites throughout the state.
Thousands make pilgrimages throughout New Mexico on Good Friday. For those making a pilgrimage for the first time this year, here’s some advice from people who have already made the journey.
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