Associated Press

State lawmakers in New Mexico passed a $1.1 billion tax relief package at the close of the 60-day legislative session.

State Police say two 16-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting near Las Cruces.

The state House has endorsed a plan to ask voters to end New Mexico’s status as the only state without a salaried Legislature.

The appointment of Arsenio Romero was announced Tuesday by the governor. The Public Education Department is grappling with surging absenteeism among students, below-average high school graduation rates, and lagging student proficiency in core academic subjects.

Currently only school board members representing districts that have more than 12,000 students are required to report donations, a threshold met by only four of the state's 89 districts.

The court on Thursday closed out an appeal initiated last year by Cowboys for Trump co-founder and former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin. Justices cited missed court filing deadlines. Griffin says he will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

Interim police chief Peter Pacillas said that Cielo Vista Mall was still considered a crime scene, and that it would remain locked down until authorities had completed their investigation. Pacillas stressed that the danger had passed.

Police in El Paso, TX say one person has been killed and three others have been wounded in a shooting in a shopping mall. El Paso police spokesperson Sgt. Robert Gomez says one person has been taken into custody. Gomez says the three people who were wounded have been hospitalized, their conditions were not known. The shooting happened in a busy shopping area, across a large parking lot from the Walmart where 23 people were killed in a racist attack in 2019.

Dozens of traditional irrigation systems that supply community farms, gardens, and orchards in northern New Mexico won't flow with water this spring. Rural officials tell state lawmakers Tuesday that it's a devastating consequence of the historic wildfire that the U.S. Forest Service sparked last year.

Production is expected to resume this spring on the movie "Rust" which was halted in October 2021 after the fatal shooting on set involving actor-producer Alec Baldwin. It was also announced Tuesday that a related documentary will detail the completion of the film and the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.