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An independent panel says the United States can extend the life of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing programs, a finding that activists contend means there's no need for the nation to design replacements for the nuclear arsenal.
Campaign contributions to retired U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, paid for more than $700,000 in lawyers' bills arising from an ethics investigation into his role in the 2007 firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jerry Simmons envisions a future of brighter, more efficient lights, with people even being able to tune the color of light in a room to suit a mood or the time of day.
It's the last stop of the day for Rural Bookmobile West, snugged up against a curb in a corner of the Ramah Post Office parking lot, where a few customers-to-be wait in their cars protected from looming dark clouds that smell of rain.
An eastern New Mexico couple has been jailed after a 10-year-old girl told police her father and stepmother used a timer to limit her meals, then locked her inside her bedroom to keep her from getting up to eat.
The U.S. Department of Energy's inspector general says Los Alamos County firefighters aren't sufficiently trained to handle the unique fires they could face with hazardous or radioactive materials at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ruled the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly does not warrant listing as an endangered species and protection of its habitat.
A 21-year-old Navajo soldier killed in Afghanistan was described by his mother as someone who made everyone smile and his father remembered him as an outgoing man with an interest in the outdoors and art.
The New Mexico attorney general says a grand jury has returned indictments against former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron and three others, alleging misuse of public money.
The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Canada has caused a shortage of a radioactive isotope used to detect cancers and heart disease, forcing doctors into costlier procedures that can be less effective and expose patients to more radioactivity.
The leader of the Navajo Nation marked the 30th anniversary of a massive uranium tailings spill by reaffirming the tribe's ban on future uranium mining.
Utility officials announced plans Thursday to build a giant solar energy plant in the New Mexico desert in what is believed to be the largest such project in the nation.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup is reviewing the files of all its priests, saying it wants a more thorough evaluation under the church's national policy on preventing abuse and responding to molestation claims.
Watchdog groups want the U.S. to reduce its nuclear weapons complex to just three sites as a step toward the nuclear arms-free world that President Barack Obama envisioned in a speech days ago in Prague.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given New Mexico "split status" for bovine tuberculosis — meaning only two counties in the state will be under strict requirements for moving and testing cattle.
New Mexico has approved its first license for a business to produce medical marijuana, but its name and location are secret.
The rapid whop, whop, whop of a wind turbine outside the New Mexico National Guard headquarters hints at a new mission for the homefront military: Going green.
Three Los Alamos National Laboratory computers were taken from a scientist's home and a Blackberry belonging to another employee was lost overseas, but lab officials say no sensitive information would have been lost.
It was only midmorning on the first day of absentee voting, but 200 people had already shown up to cast their ballots at the clerk's office in Bernalillo County, New Mexico's most populous.
Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life.
In the past few years, Rich Nieto's work has started earlier and lasted longer.
A coalition of conservation and animal protection groups on Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to extend federal protection to Canada lynx in New Mexico.
In rural areas, where accessing health care is often a challenge, the doctors and patients of the future will increasingly be linked by virtual interstates.
An asteroid that exploded over Siberia a century ago, leaving 800 square miles of scorched or blown down trees, wasn't nearly as large as previously thought, a researcher concludes, suggesting a greater danger for Earth.
The nation's nuclear weapons laboratories need tougher safety oversight to fix a recent track record that includes dozens of lapses, accidents and near misses, according to a government report released Wednesday.
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