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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Laguna Pueblo has received funding from the Bureau of Indian Education to rebuild its elementary school campus that serves about 220 students.U.S. Sen. Tom Udall on Friday confirmed approval of $26 million to replace worn-down classrooms at the elementary school serving the Laguna tribal community about 45 miles (72...

The Questa mine, a few miles east of the town that shares its name, has been on the list of the country’s most polluted Superfund sites for nearly two decades. For while mining operations have ceased, heavy metals and other pollutants continue to leach through the rock and contaminate the area’s water, including the nearby Red...

President Herbert Hoover established it as a national monument in 1933 and now U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich has introduced legislation to elevate White Sands to a national park. That would certainly be good for New Mexico, resulting in increased visitation and enhanced recognition for the breathtaking site. Elected officials and community leaders have...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Jimmie Lueder worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1950s during the Cold War. All she’ll say is that she worked as “support staff.” Now 88 and living in Albuquerque, Lueder has suffered from several cancers since the ’70s, likely due to her work with radioactive materials all those years...

They may not agree on all of the details, but Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), who both sit on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, concur on the necessity of updating national energy policies and addressing questions surrounding national electric transmission infrastructure. A nationwide conversation is playing...

On today's Wake-Up Call, host Tom Trowbridge features Senator Martin Heinrich’s questioning of President Trump’s choice for CIA Director. Also: KSFR's John Shannon reports on an artist who’s working with prosecutors to stop native art and jewelry counterfeiting; Ellen Lockyer has an update from Wednesday's Santa Fe...

WASHINGTON — A day after Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the C.I.A., refused during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday to condemn the agency’s torture of Qaeda suspects, several lawmakers and human-rights advocates said aspects of her testimony merited greater scrutiny. While Ms. Haspel, the agency’s acting...

Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks with Katy Tur about Wednesday’s confirmation hearing with Gina Haspel, the President’s nominee to lead the CIA.Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks with Katy Tur about Wednesday’s confirmation hearing with Gina Haspel, the President’s nominee to lead the CIA. He’s previously...

WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, told lawmakers on Wednesday that she would not restart the agency’s defunct torture program if confirmed to head the CIA — but she refused to weigh in on the morality of the program. Asked several times whether she thought the so-called “enhanced...

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, told Senators Wednesday that she would not reinstate the brutal torture program the agency ran at black sites after 9/11, pledging to put her moral beliefs ahead of any immoral orders. “I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that I thought was immoral, even if it was...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal legislators grilled U.S. and Puerto Rico officials on Tuesday on why power has not been fully restored to the island nearly eight months after Hurricane Maria, and as a new storm season looms. Lawmakers at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources also questioned why the U.S....

Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich (N.M.) said Monday he will not support Gina Haspel to be President Trump’s new CIA director. "This is about trust, and the public is not being afforded an open and honest debate about the nominee," Heinrich told NBC News. "There are questions that absolutely need to be answered publicly, and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced on Monday the White Sands National Park Establishment Act, a bill to designate White Sands National Monument as New Mexico's newest national park. “The vision to create White Sands National Park has been driven by a diverse coalition of community leaders and local elected...

It’s now been seven months since Hurricane Maria shredded Puerto Rico. Thousands Americans on the island still don’t have power, and this year’s hurricane season, expected to be busy, begins in less than a month. Last year’s Category 4 storm that toppled 80 percent of the island’s power lines and flooded its...

Eight months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s power grid, causing the largest blackout in U.S. history, more than 98 percent of the people have their power back. The remaining two percent may have to wait a while. Though about 23,000 of the 1.47 million customers remain without power, U.S. officials said Tuesday they plan on...

A key Democratic senator said he would not vote for Gina Haspel, Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, after a meeting Monday at which she failed to satisfactorily answer questions about her background in the agency, an aide said. The meeting with Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate intelligence committee, took place in a...

One summer night in the late 1980s, Gina Haspel, a young CIA field officer on her first overseas assignment, found herself standing outside a hotel in Addis Ababa talking to Jimmy Carter. The former president was visiting Ethiopia to foster peace talks between the government and Eritrean rebels and urgently needed to get word to a...

FARMINGTON — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Aztec Police Department Chief Mike Heal met during the senator’s visit to the Four Corners this past week to discuss school safety and security efforts, and potential action. “I met with a number of students from Aztec a few weeks ago who came back to Washington, D.C.,"...

ALAMOGORDO – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich visited White Sands National Monument Friday to meet with community leaders and discuss legislation he plans to introduce to Congress that will designate the monument as a national park. State Sen. Ron Griggs, R- Dist. 34, and former Alamogordo mayor kicked off discussion of the White...

A vast expanse of shifting white sand dunes in southern New Mexico would be elevated from a national monument to a national park under legislation proposed Friday by one of the state’s senators. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, made the announcement while visiting the state as part of a multiday tour that also included looking at the...