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Parents raised concerns about APS recording children’s voices using AI. The district responded.

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Parents across the Duke City pushed back against Albuquerque Public Schools’ use of artificial intelligence to record, analyze and store elementary students’ voices without explicit parental consent. The district listened and is now changing how it handles those recordings. At the center of the debate is Amira AI, an […]

Callie the dog (center) is joined by Angelita Sampaio (right), Best Friends Animal Society Senior Specialist, Network Partner Mobilization, and Sandoval County Animal Care team leaders, Kimberly Jaramillo, Assistant Director, and Mark Webb, Supervisor, to celebrate the NO-KILL SHELTER designation.

Sandoval County

Sandoval County animal shelter earns no-kill status again

Sandoval County Animal Care Services has once again been named a no-kill shelter, a distinction the county has held for several years running, according to a press release from the county. The Best Friends Animal Society, a national nonprofit that works with more than 5,500 shelters and rescue groups to end shelter killings, announced the […]

The 2026 Feeding the Economy report revealed New Mexico’s food and agriculture industry has an economic impact of $50 billion. According to the latest New Mexico Agriculture Statistics Bulletin, cattle and calves are the state’s No. 1 cash commodity with a production value of $1.72 billion. (Photo courtesy New Mexico Department of Agriculture)

Jobs, Workers & Economy

New Mexico cattle growers say Trump’s always changing beef policies are “troubling” and send “wrong signal at the wrong time”

One of New Mexico’s most reliably conservative industries says President Donald Trump’s new executive order opening borders to beef imports just as ranchers begin culling herds sends the “wrong signal at the wrong time.” This story was originally published at New Mexico Political Report, a nonprofit news service covering politics and policy in the Land […]

Aerial photos taken on June 26, 2026, show the construction site for Project Jupiter, the Oracle and OpenAI data center project planned for southern New Mexico. (Courtesy of Alexa Reynaud, Food & Water Watch, with aerial support provided by LightHawk)

Southern New Mexico

Stansbury demands answers on Project Jupiter’s water use, gives agencies a Friday deadline

by Kevin Hendricks, Editor August 25, 2026August 25, 2026

By Kevin Hendricks, NM Political Report Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury is giving state agencies until Friday to publicly account for how Project Jupiter, the sprawling AI data center campus near Santa Teresa, will meet its water needs. Stansbury’s office sent a formal letter Monday to five state officials demanding answers on the project’s water rights, permits […]

Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., speaks during a press conference at Saranam's Westside campus, announcing more than $7.6 million in federal Community Project Funding for seven local housing and homelessness projects. Aug. 19, 2026, (Jesse Jones)

Federal Government & Congress

Stansbury announces $7.6M for Albuquerque housing, homelessness programs

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Families in the Duke City who rely on federal housing funding got a boost this week, even as the larger fight over that money goes on in Washington. U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, announced Wednesday at Saranam’s Westside campus more than $7.6 million in Community Project Funding for […]

Jobs, Workers & Economy

New Mexico Supreme Court puts Project Jupiter air proceeding, emergency well authorization on hold

By Damien Willis, Organ Mountain News, Las Cruces — The New Mexico Supreme Court has temporarily halted two state actions tied to Project Jupiter, staying an air-quality permitting proceeding and an emergency authorization allowing water from a new well to be used for construction of the massive data center project in Doña Ana County. The […]

A Gallup native is in line to become one of the country’s top health officials after President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

National News

From Gallup to Washington: UNM Graduate nominated to lead FDA

by Jesse Jones August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. & New Mexico Political Report — A Gallup native is in line to become one of the country’s top health officials after President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Overton has deep academic and civic ties to N.M. She graduated from Gallup […]

Sandoval County

Senior Service Fair rolls into Bernalillo this week

Sandoval County seniors won’t have to hunt down help on their own this week — lawmakers are bringing the help to them. Five state legislators are hosting a Senior Service Fair Thursday, Aug. 20, aimed at connecting seniors and caregivers with services in one stop. Reps. Catherine Cullen, Joshua Hernandez and Alan Martinez, along with […]

Jobs, Workers & Economy

Can New Mexico, not Blackstone, just buy PNM? It turns out, we can’t. Here’s why.

With more than $70 billion available to invest for the benefit of New Mexico, why doesn’t the State Investment Council just buy PNM instead of letting them sell to Blackstone, a private equity company? This story was originally published at New Mexico Political Report, a nonprofit news service covering politics and policy in the Land […]

Sandoval County

UNM Hospital CEO announces retirement as SRMC reports growth

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Sandoval Regional Medical Center’s longtime CEO is stepping down Dec. 11, and she used what may be her final mill levy update to Sandoval County commissioners to introduce the man taking her place — while fielding pointed questions about ER wait times, a doctor shortage and crash data commissioners say […]