ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Local officials and residents in New Mexico’s oil patches are anxious as the Biden administration takes aim at the oil and natural gas industry with a series of new...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's Democratic senators have placed the judicial confirmations for two U.S. District Court vacancies on hold until after the Nov. 3 election. They say the president...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two key leaders in the New Mexico Senate have lost their primary bids amid a push by liberal advocacy groups to unseat Democratic lawmakers who have resisted their...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich is throwing his political weight behind primary challengers to socially conservative Democrats in the New Mexico state...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A review of a proposal to ramp up production of key components for the United States' nuclear arsenal will be open and transparent, according to members of New Mexico's...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich has named the former executive of the National Hispanic Cultural Center as his new chief of staff.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján says his Senate election bid in 2020 has the support of New Mexico's two current senators.

In a statement Monday, Luján announced endorsements...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's U.S. senators want the Trump administration to defend the state's pecan growers from tariffs during ongoing trade negotiations with India.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republican construction contractor Mick Rich is making a second run for the U.S. Senate in New Mexico.

The Mick Rich 2020 campaign committee filed paperwork August 1...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. lawmakers made another push Thursday to ban collectors and vendors from exporting Native American ceremonial items to foreign markets, including Paris,...

CHACO CANYON NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt met with leaders of the Navajo Nation and Pueblo tribes at Chaco Canyon National Historical Park on...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test are planning another protest outside the annual opening of the site to...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 race for U.S. Senate in New Mexico (all times local):

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Republican construction contractor Mick Rich says he is contemplating...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham seized the New Mexico governor's office away from Republican control as Democratic candidates swept a long list of statewide races.

Sentiments against President Donald Trump were running high across much of the state as Lujan Grisham defeated GOP Congressman Steve Pearce by a wide margin in Tuesday's election.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich won re-election to a second term Tuesday in a three-way race against a Republican political newcomer and a Libertarian former governor.

The 47-year-old engineer and former congressman finished ahead of construction contractor Mick Rich and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday won election as New Mexico governor to succeed a two-term Republican amid simmering conflicts over struggling public schools and high poverty rates.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico candidates for governor, a lone Senate seat and two open congressional districts barnstormed through major cities Monday to rally supporters in the wake of record-breaking early voter turnout.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Senate from New Mexico, who opposes recreational marijuana, acknowledged during a rambunctious debate Friday that he had smoked it.

A Libertarian candidate warned that young people are "getting screwed" by federal debt, and the Democratic incumbent said some tax cuts by President Donald Trump should be reversed.

Other topics at the debate ran the gamut from gun control to Trump's response to a migrant caravan headed north through Mexico.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Republicans and Democratic candidates trying to win over voters as November's midterm elections draw closer ratcheted up their rhetoric Thursday in support and against President Donald Trump's scathing criticism about the migrant caravan of Central Americans heading through Mexico toward the U.S.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In a feisty three-way U.S. Senate debate in New Mexico, incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich on Friday cast himself as a crucial line of defense for federal retirement and health care benefits, as Libertarian and Republican challengers painted a picture of runaway federal spending and a lawless southern border with Mexico.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on a three-way Senate candidate debate in New Mexico (all times local):

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Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich is defending his job performance and policies in a three-way debate from attacks by Libertarian and Republican rivals.

Republican candidate Mick Rich accused Heinrich at the Friday night debate of neglecting security along the U.S. border with Mexico and not doing enough for the state of New Mexico.

TUCUMCARI, N.M. (AP) — The nation rejected him in 2016 as an offbeat alternative to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. The rest is not yet history as Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, seeks a seat in the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian and political wild card.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Libertarian and Republican challengers in New Mexico's three-way U.S. Senate race voiced support Friday for the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as the Senate closed in on a final vote.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Former presidential candidate Gary Johnson is setting his sights on a U.S. Senate seat from New Mexico as a Libertarian candidate, arguing that he can act as an influential swing vote and a voice of reason in bitterly divided Washington. The former governor wants to downsize federal spending to offset President Donald Trump's tax cuts and push let-live policies on cannabis and education. Democrats warn that he would work to torpedo social spending.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Senate candidate Gary Johnson of New Mexico has disclosed personal financial interests in the cannabis sector that include stock holdings, a profit sharing agreement and recent capital gains on investment sales, according to filings reviewed by The Associated Press.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's three senatorial candidates are promising to help descendants of families who lived through the Trinity Test — a change that descendants say comes after they've worked to get their stories out.

Democratic U.S. Senate Martin Heinrich, his Republican challenger Mick Rich and Libertarian Gary Johnson all say they would advocate for descendants to be included in a federal law that compensated families near nuclear test sites.