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Zamora is a farmer and rancher from the Clovis area.

A 1,000-acre plot of land along the Eddy-Lea county line could still be home to a nuclear storage facility, local supporters say, after a plan for the project appeared to be shelved last week.

In total, 140 lobbyists reported $234,000 in expenditures between May and October, including paying for mailers, catering legislative meetings or holding events.

The state agency that administers New Mexico’s food stamps program says as many as 32,000 residents’ eligibility could be impacted next month by new federal rules.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) completed a study of the bridge and will start a $500,000 project to slow erosion around the bridge’s pier and riverbed.

In a Wednesday announcement published in the Federal Register, Department of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem said the effort to build between Sunland Park to the eastern edge of the state’s bootheel, near Antelope Wells is in effect as of Oct. 8.

New Mexico’s Motor Vehicle Division will no longer issue or renew commercial driver’s licenses or learner’s permits to certain foreign-born drivers, according to a recent news release.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed most of the legislation passed during this week’s special session of the New Mexico Legislature, according to a news release from her office.

A tax levy that was defeated in a special election in June – a setback that could cost Artesia General Hospital between $4 million and $7 million a year – is going before the voters again in this year’s general election on Nov 4.

Torres, 45 and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, will remain in custody pending trial, which has not yet been scheduled.