By Skye Rivers, Santa Fe Reporter & The Paper.— Somewhere between medicine and controversy sits a mushroom. For decades, psilocybin lived in the shadows. The naturally occurring psychedelic compound, found in certain species of fungi, was better known by its street name: magic mushrooms. The mushroom itself is just the organism that produces it. Revered […]
New Mexico Statewide News
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News
Republican Party of New Mexico members fail to reach quorum to elect new chair
This article was originally published by Source NM. By Patrick Lohmann, Source NM Only about 160 Republicans attended in person or via proxy on Saturday to vote to elect a new state party chair, far short of the quorum needed to select a leader ahead of the November general election. The seat is currently vacant […]
Posted inElections & Politics
Deb Haaland interviewing prospective running mates ahead DPNM vote to fill Lt Gov ticket
Deb Haaland plans to endorse a fellow Democrats to join her on the party’s November ticket seeking the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, but she’ll spend a few days interviewing prospective candidates first. About 300 members of the state Democratic Party’s State Central Committee will officially choose a candidate to fill the vacancy left […]
Posted inEnvironment, Conservation & Climate
West Nile virus detected in Bernalillo County mosquitoes
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have turned up in Bernalillo County, and health officials want residents to act before monsoon season makes things worse. The infected insects were collected near the Rio Grande through the joint mosquito surveillance program run by the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, with testing […]
Posted inCongress & Federal Gov.
Black-owned businesses sound the alarm on capital, cuts and survival at Juneteenth roundtable with Sen. Heinrich
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. On Juneteenth, a room full of Black entrepreneurs at a soul food smokehouse in Albuquerque did something radical: they told a U.S. senator exactly what’s wrong — and what they need to survive. The Black Chamber of Commerce of New Mexico hosted U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich at Nexus Smokehouse on […]
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Here are the Dems jockeying to be Deb Haaland’s running mate after Toulouse Oliver backed out of Lt. Gov run
Commentary by Pat Davis, The Paper & NM Political Report — Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver announced Thursday that she was “taking a step back” from her campaign for Lieutenant Governor to focus on health and family, just weeks after she won the Democratic primary for that position. Pat Davis on politics Pat Davis […]
Posted inJobs, Workers & Economy
PNM, Blackstone commit $20 million to build New Mexico trades jobs needed for PNM renewables and statewide economic growth
Rosendo Najar stops at construction sites to check the tags on the trucks parked outside. Too often, he says, those trucks sport tags from Arizona or Texas, not New Mexico, and that means local developers are bringing in labor to do jobs trained New Mexican laborers can do. Najar, who is a leader with the […]
Posted inEnvironment, Conservation & Climate
Did you feel the New Mexico earthquake this past weekend?
Earthquakes aren’t normally cause for much thought in the quiet desert landscape across Central New Mexico, but some Valencia County residents got a reminder on Sunday that the ground under their feet is still very much active. The Valencia County Fire Department’s Facebook page generated hundreds of comments after it shared that they had received […]
Posted inEnergy
Fact Check: What do we really know about Blackstone’s plan to buy PNM?
Editor’s note: In August 2025, New Mexico’s largest utility, privately-owned PNM, asked state regulators for permission to sell to a subsidiary of Blackstone, a private equity firm which has offered $11.5 billion for the company. Since PNM is a public utility, the sale must be approved by the Public Regulation Commission and that process has […]
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Tree deaths in New Mexico tripled in 2025 as warming summers increases insects, stress on forests
Tree deaths tripled in New Mexico during the second warmest year on record, according to new analysis of the state’s forest health from the U.S. Forest Service and New Mexico Forestry Division. 2025 saw a rapid expansion of bark beetle-caused deaths with 209,000 acres of conifers now dead — up from 67,000 acres in 2024 […]