1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (654+ words) The New Mexico Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit and a request for a temporary restraining order against the state Children, Youth and Families Department following reports the agency dropped a 15-year-old boy off at the U.S.-Mexico border…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (437+ words) The New Mexico Supreme Court this week struck down a Republican bid to reverse the rules underpinning New Mexico’s growing universal childcare program. The two-page ruling issued Wednesday ends a lawsuit filed by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Duke Rodriguez, who…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1363+ words) New Mexico’s child welfare agency is under fire following reports it took a 15-year-old foster boy to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he was told to cross alone and reunite with his mother. The boy, whose name is not being…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (811+ words) The stack of lawsuits filed against New Mexico Highlands University keeps getting taller. Paul Grindstaff, Highlands’ former vice president for advancement and university relations who also served as executive director of the NMHU Foundation, has accused the state-owned school in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (420+ words) The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is denying accusations that it abuses confidentiality laws to shield itself from accountability and to retaliate against critics, according to a document filed last week. The agency’s answer to a state Department…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (586+ words) The New Mexico Highlands University Board of Regents has denied wrongdoing in its decision to fire former President Neil Woolf, the latest development in a monthslong administrative saga at the state-owned university in Las Vegas, N.M. The regents and the former…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (747+ words) 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 shot and wounded while he and other unsupervised teenagers played…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (803+ words) 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 spiked, with preliminary data showing they have increased by 24% so far this year, DeBlassie said…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (801+ words) A former New Mexico Highlands University athletic director has filed a new lawsuit accusing the state-owned school in Las Vegas, N.M., of harassment, discrimination and retaliation based on race, religion and sex. The federal complaint, filed May 21 in the U.S. District Court…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (764+ words) ALBUQUERQUE — A 2nd Judicial District judge has sided with state officials in rejecting a lawsuit seeking to upend the foundational rules underpinning New Mexico’s nascent universal childcare program. Judge Elaine Lujan ruled Thursday the lawsuit, filed in April by former Republican…...