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Our children need nature. To grow up healthy, kids need a clean, beautiful, and accessible outdoors where they can play and discover the amazing world around them. Spending time with family while connecting with nature brings tremendous health and educational benefits to children. Fortunately, New Mexico has numerous spectacular and historically...

PIE TOWN, N.M. (AP) - Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation are concerned about a decision by the U.S. postmaster general to temporarily suspend operations at a post office in a tiny community along the Continental Divide that is best known for its homemade pies. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Rep. Steve Pearce sent a...

New Mexico added wind power capacity at a faster rate than any other state in 2017, according to a national trade association report. Wind power supplies about 13.5 percent of all energy in the state, enough to power more than 422,000 homes. And with a bevy of wind projects in development, New Mexico is poised to more than double its capacity over...

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic senators are asking the CIA to publicly disclose more information on President Donald Trump's nominee to head the agency as uncertain confirmation proceedings gear up. The public knows little about Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer who has been tapped by the president to be the next CIA director, because...

A trio of Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are signaling they have seen problematic classified information about CIA director nominee Gina Haspel’s career at the agency. Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Ron Wyden of Oregon made the assertion in a letter sent Friday to CIA...

U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to express concern with the retaliatory tariffs implemented by the Chinese government on 128 American product lines, including an additional 15-percent tariff on U.S. pecans. The increase was made in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s two U.S. senators are concerned that tariffs implemented by the Chinese government on dozens of American product lines, including pecans, could hurt growers in the state. New Mexico is one of the nation’s top pecan-producing states. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich wrote a letter Friday...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether President Donald Trump will try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the two men who wield the most power in the Russia investigation. A series of scandals, with the FBI raiding the office of Trump’s personal...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two western senators are proposing to expand access to a $4 billion federal program that has allowed public schools and libraries throughout the U.S. to obtain high-speed internet at affordable rates as one way to close the digital divide that persists across American Indian communities and other rural...

DORA — Wind was on the minds of some Roosevelt County residents on Thursday, but not because their hats were flying off. Landowner Bill Rush touted the economic benefits that come from the energy-producing turbines on the Roosevelt Wind Farm and the planned Sagamore Wind Project, both south of Portales. Rush thanked U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich,...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s two U.S. senators have joined fellow Democrats and environmentalists in calling for the embattled chief of the Environmental Protection Agency to resign. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich issued statements Thursday, taking aim at Scott Pruitt’s policy decisions and recent suggestions that he...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., stopped in Gallup April 2 to announce the Degrees Not Debt Act and to support the construction of the Gallup Veterans Cemetery. During his visit, he spoke to fellow democrats at the Jim Harlin Community Pantry about his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Heinrich said voters of the region should cast their ballots...

U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall said Thursday that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt should resign. The two Democrats are the latest elected official to say the scandal-ridden administrator should not be in charge of the agency. “Scott Pruitt has been surrounded by ethical problems and has failed to...

GALLUP — College students currently graduate with degrees as well as mountains of debt — but a new bill is aimed at easing the burden of student loans in our nation. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., announced for the first time Monday new legislation titled “Degrees Not Debt,” in front of students from Middle College High...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. military recently tested a new, high-powered microwave weapon built by Raytheon in New Mexico to down swarms of incoming drones and missiles. Raytheon successfully demonstrated the system in December during an Army exercise at Fort Sill, Ok., where the ground-based weapon shot down 33 unmanned aerial vehicles with...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For years, World War II Navajo Code Talker Adolph Nagurski didn’t talk much about his war experiences. In fact, his son, Benjamin Nagurski, said, “I didn’t know my dad had been in the Marines until maybe the 1970s, when it was finally revealed there were such things as Code Talkers.” For the past...

As hundreds of thousands of American schoolchildren prepared to rally for gun law reform in Washington, Albuquerque and other U.S. cities late last month, Sen. Martin Heinrich marveled at the students’ power to change the national conversation. “It’s had more impact than anything I’ve seen in my years in elected...

New Mexico lost almost 14 percent of its solar jobs in 2017, but had a strong showcase in solar installations compared to the rest of the country. A report from The Solar Foundation however, indicates the state is going to be installing more solar in the coming years. The Land of Enchantment ranked No. 29 overall for solar jobs in 2017 with 2,522...

To know the Plains of San Agustin of western New Mexico is to love it. I remember the first time I drove west of Magdalena and laid eyes on this vast expanse of grasslands. A couple winters ago, I took my son Carter on an elk hunt in the Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area where the views stretch out for miles above the surrounding plains....

At a time of extraordinary political division, it’s rare that a public lands bill gets sweeping bipartisan support. Fights over how to manage public lands rage in today’s West, from disputes over national monument boundaries to whether states should have control over federal lands. Yet when Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, brought a public...