Las Cruces
Las Cruces board selects Ramos as school superintendent

Jun. 02, 2021 10:21 AM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Interim Superintendent Ralph Ramos has been chosen as permanent superintendent of the Las Cruces public school system, filling a...

In-person graduations planned amid New Mexico vaccine push

May. 12, 2021 01:41 PM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A year after holding only drive-thru graduations, the school district for New Mexico's second most populous city has scheduled in...

Many Las Cruces municipal employees back to in-person work

May. 08, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Many municipal employees of New Mexico's second most populous city who have worked remotely during the pandemic are back at their...

New Mexico schools begin to spend $1.5 billion pandemic aid

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 29, 2021 12:25 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico education officials have started to spend about $1.5 in pandemic relief aid set aside for them by the federal government. ...

New Mexico high schoolers will return after 'secret prom'

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 20, 2021 03:44 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — High school students who attended “secret proms” in a southern New Mexico school district won’t face disciplinary actions, and their...

A nurse draws up the vaccine of the manufacturer Moderna against the coronavirus with a syringe in a posed situation a the vaccination centre in Bielefeld, Germany, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP)
The Latest: Minnesotan charged with attacks over mask demand

By The Associated Press Apr. 17, 2021 10:38 AM EDT

'Secret prom' puts New Mexico school back on remote learning

Apr. 16, 2021 02:26 PM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A Las Cruces high school returned to remote learning on Friday as the school district in New Mexico's second most populous city...

FILE - In this July 23, 2020, file photo, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham talks about schools during an update on a COVID-19 broadcast from the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. More school districts in New Mexico can bring students back into classrooms in early February, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The Democratic governor said she's allowing schools to open their doors to students of all ages, in a major pull-back of restrictions that were based on county-level COVID-19 case rates and hospital capacity. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
From bus drivers to prom, New Mexico schools work to reopen

By Cedar Attanasio Mar. 10, 2021 01:55 PM EST

Republican state Sen. William Sharer of Farmington, left, and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth of Santa Fe greet each other with an elbow bump on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M., on the first day of a 60-day legislative session. Fences, roadblocks, police and troops encircled the building as a precaution against federal warnings about the potential for violence. Plexiglass partitions have been installed on the floor of the House and Senate to protect legislators from coronavirus infection, and the Capitol is closed to the public to blunt the contagion. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
New Mexico lawmakers among beneficiaries of relief grants

By Morgan Lee Jan. 21, 2021 06:39 PM EST

New Mexico touts sewage monitoring program in COVID-19 fight

Jan. 11, 2021 09:27 PM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A wastewater monitoring program launched last month has helped to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak at a juvenile justice facility in southern...

New Mexico cities prepare for vaccination distribution

Jan. 05, 2021 06:16 PM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Las Cruces city officials will be creating a vaccination task force to help coordinate distribution when doses become more widely...

New Mexico school district prepares for safe reopening

By Algernon D'ammassa Jan. 01, 2021 10:10 AM EST
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Visitors to public schools are familiar with routine procedures like signing in and getting a visitor’s badge. These days, the rare...

Immigrant requests pour in for New Mexico virus relief funds

By Cedar Attanasio Dec. 10, 2020 03:10 PM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials have received tens of thousands of applications for virus relief payments meant for residents regardless of...

People protesting the health orders of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stand outside the state Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. The Capitol, which houses the offices of the governor and the legislature, was closed to the public at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Legislators are meeting Tuesday to pass an economic relief bill. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
New Mexico ranks high for coronavirus diagnosis rates

Nov. 29, 2020 02:24 PM EST

New Mexico State basketball temporarily moving to Phoenix

Nov. 17, 2020 05:52 PM EST
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State's men's basketball team will temporarily move to Phoenix due to coronavirus restrictions in its home state. ...

New Mexico reports 1,180 additional cases, 10 more deaths

Nov. 14, 2020 01:09 AM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico reported an additional 1,180 additional known COVID-19 cases and 10 more deaths as preparations began for a two-week near...

In this photo provided by Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital, Arthur Sanchez, left, speaks with Dr. Ashwini Arjuna during a follow-up appointment, post-transplant, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Seven months after he was first hospitalized in his hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, with COVID-19, the 52-year-old utility worker has a brand new set of lungs. (Courtesy of Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital via AP)
Virus survivor: Double lung transplant 'a walking miracle'

By Terry Tang Nov. 12, 2020 05:31 PM EST

New Mexico hospitals seeing strain as COVID-19 cases climb

By Susan Montoya Bryan Nov. 09, 2020 02:42 PM EST
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Top medical officers for some of New Mexico’s largest hospital systems said Monday they are now at or above normal capacity as the...

Rev. Mario Carminati touches a pictures of his nephew Christian Persico, at a cemetery in Casnigo, near Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. As the world counts more than 1 million COVID victims, the quiet of everyday life and hum of industry has returned to Bergamo, which along with the surrounding Lombardy region was the onetime epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. But the memory of those dark winter days, and the monumental toll of dead they left behind, has remained with those who survived only to see the rest of the world fall victim, too. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
The Latest: All AZ counties now OKed for partial reopenings

By The Associated Press Oct. 01, 2020 01:36 AM EDT

New Mexico winds down Trump's $300 unemployment supplement

Sep. 16, 2020 05:03 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico labor officials said Wednesday a $300 weekly federal supplement to unemployment benefits expired on Sept. 5. as payments...