New Mexico legislative leaders are recommending a 5.7% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year

The parent company of Cash App will pay around $1.6 million to New Mexico to settle claims that the company wasn't doing enough to prevent its services from being used for illegal activities.

Three of New Mexico's five Congressional members tell KOAT they will skip President-elect Donald Trump's second Inauguration on Monday.

Cold Weather alerts and Freeze alerts issued from New Mexico to Florida. Wind chills are near 20 degrees all the way south to the Gulf Coast and are in the 30s in Florida.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Nelly Junior Joseph’s 16 points helped New Mexico defeat Boise State 84-65 on Friday. Joseph added nine rebounds for the Lobos (15-4, 7-1 Mountain West Conference). Donovan Dent scored 16 points and added seven assists. Tru Washington finished 5 of 8 from the field to finish with 13 points.

In 1838, in Morristown, N.J., Samuel F.B. Morse and his partner, Alfred Vail, publicly demonstrated their new invention, the telegraph, for the first time. In 1912, New Mexico joined the United States as the 47th state.

"This show focuses on the narrative, the false narratives and the truths within those false narratives of eight different Black men and boys living in New Mexico," Washington-Vaughns said.

Donald Trump intends to start his second White House term by unleashing more than 100 executive orders and directives.

If Trump fulfills his campaign promises on immigration, he could disrupt a fragile equilibrium at the southern border and hurt the economy.

Trump’s second term will have an outsized impact on Arizona, a border state and presidential battleground that was at the heart of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and then elected him decisively four years later. Trump is in a more powerful position than he was on Inauguration Day in 2017, political watchers say.

The energy transition needs political support for higher energy costs and the significant land footprint of renewable energy projects.

Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, Jan. 20, has taken an antagonistic tone towards the United States’ southern neighbor, including economically. After his Nov. 5 election victory, he vowed to impose a 25% tax on imports from Mexico, though analysts disagree as to whether he would actually follow through.