News from June 2021

By New Mexico Reports | Jun 22, 2021
Robert Earl Hooker, Jr. - July 16, 1930 ~ June 8, 2021 (age 90)

By New Mexico Reports | Jun 22, 2021
Luz G. Vigil - March 4, 1929 ~ June 13, 2021 (age 92)




By New Mexico Reports | Jun 22, 2021
Kenneth Orvis Reil - October 16, 1947 ~ June 12, 2021 (age 73)



By Andy Nghiem | Jun 22, 2021
The New Mexico Higher Education Department recently announced that the state’s Lottery Scholarship will now offer 100% tuition assistance to all qualifying students.

By Andy Nghiem | Jun 21, 2021
New Mexico Sen. Greg Schmedes (R-Tijeras) is calling on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham not to renew the state's emergency public-health executive order, claiming the state has achieved herd immunity from COVID-19.

By Timothy Stuckey | Jun 21, 2021
The New Mexico Senate enacted legislation earlier this year that would eliminate a provision in the state's minimum wage law that required high school students to be paid less per hour than adult employees, according to a report by Bloomberg Tax.

By Solange DeLisle | Jun 21, 2021
New Mexico will spend more money on public education, early childhood services, plus business subsidies and incentives starting next month thanks to a $7.4 billion budget signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham earlier this month.

By David Beasley | Jun 21, 2021
As unemployment claims soared during the COVID-19 pandemic and New Mexico struggled to meet the rising demand, the state paid out millions of dollars in fraudulent claims, according to a recent report by the Program Evaluation Unit of the state's Legislative Finance Committee.

By Kasey Schefflin-Emrich | Jun 21, 2021
Festival Flamenco will return to Albuquerque this summer for its 34th annual event

By Alexus Barnhart | Jun 21, 2021
Northern Aquatic Club, a youth swim club and nonprofit founded in Santa Fe found its new beginning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as two families banded together to serve the community's needs.

By Solange DeLisle | Jun 21, 2021
The Santa Fe Public Library branches closed to the public 15 months ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the doors will reopen once again next month to welcome members of the community back inside with some restrictions.

By Timothy Stuckey | Jun 21, 2021
Retrospective of Change, the 2021 Spring Senior Graduating Exhibition of the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), is now available to view online.

By Tamara Browning | Jun 21, 2021
Fire department and city officials are praising the contributions of former Santa Fe Fire Chief and City Manager Frank DiLuzio Jr., who passed away earlier this month.

By John Sammon | Jun 21, 2021
Santa Fe’s International Folk Art Market (IFAM) is scheduled for July 7-11 and 14-18, and while sponsors said the event will be a little smaller this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artwork displayed will be memorable as always.

By Kasey Schefflin-Emrich | Jun 21, 2021
Sen. Ben Ray Luján is supporting a technology investment bill that would include $17 billion for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.