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On Thursday, Virgin Galactic welcomed members of the press into its newly completed commercial launch and landing facility in southern New Mexico, bringing space tourism one step closer to reality.
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Sunland Park -
An armed militia group operating on the U.S. southern border unlawfully detained nearly 300 people seeking asylum in the U.S. near Sunland Park, New Mexico, raising the ire of law enforcement after videos were posted on social media.
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U.S. land managers will move forward in March with the sale of oil and gas leases that include land near Chaco Culture National Historical Park and other sites sacred to Native American tribes.
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The mystery surrounding the evacuation of a small mountainous area in Southern New Mexico has led to a lot of conspiracy theories. The NSO's Sunspot Solar Observatory has been closed for a week as officials investigate a "security issue."
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Berkeley -
There are tens of millions of highly radioactive, spent nuclear fuel rods being kept in temporary facilities around the United States. A father-daughter team from California has come up with a unique way to permanently store nuclear waste.
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Detroit -
Ford Motor Company has taken everyone by surprise, announcing it now plans to build a small electric-powered sports utility vehicle in Mexico instead of at its Michigan factory. The Flat Rock plant is being revamped to produce autonomous vehicles.
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Carlsbad -
Work resumed on Wednesday at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository after a nearly three-year hiatus caused by a radiation leak on Valentine's Day in 2014.
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A new effort by the National Park Service would give added protection to the geothermal features in New Mexico's Valles Caldera National Preserve. If approved, the site would be the 17th U.S. park unit with designated and protected thermal features.
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Oklahoma City -
About 7.9 million people are now at risk from man-made earthquakes, especially in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Arkansas according to the U.S. Geological Survey in a report issued earlier this week.
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After repeated complaints from victim advocates about the burgeoning backlog in testing sexual assault evidence kits in New Mexico, the state's Department of Public Safety began surveying police agencies in order to find out how big the backlog really is.
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Albuquerque -
A 911 dispatcher based in New Mexico has resigned after allegedly telling a caller who was trying to save the life of her friend who had been shot to "deal with it yourself. "
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Santa Fe -
Law enforcement agencies in New Mexico are complaining that a new state law that prevents them from seizing assets from people unless they are convicted of a crime is wreaking havoc on agency budgets.
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Taos Ski Valley -
The body of missing former White House chef, Walter Scheib, was discovered near a hiking trail in New Mexico late Sunday evening.
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Santa Fe -
On Friday, New Mexico's outgoing Democratic Attorney General Gary King sued one of the nation's largest nursing home chains over inadequate resident care and poor staffing practices. If the suit succeeds, it could be applied to other states as well.
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Albuquerque -
Tasmanian devils are known for their feisty temperament, but this wasn't enough to save one of the little creatures from a cruel death at the hands of a stranger who crushed its skull with a slab of asphalt.
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Albuquerque -
A 46 year-old New Mexico man has been arrested for what authorities can only describe as a bizarre and heinous case of animal cruelty.
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Albuquerque -
It took long enough, but on Thursday, Los Alamos National Laboratory said it had made mistakes in the packaging of nuclear waste that resulted in a radiation leak on February 14 of this year at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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Santa Fe -
The New Mexico Environmental Department has put its foot down, telling the Los Alamos National Laboratory it cannot extend the deadline any longer for the clean up of toxic waste across its northern New Mexico site.
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Alamogordo -
Filmmakers digging Saturday in a New Mexico landfill found hundreds of cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," considered by many to be the worst video game ever made.
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Is the race for high altitude unmanned drones on? Two major tech giants showed interests in start-up drone companies and another major purchase has been made today.
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Albuquerque -
The New Mexico Department of Health reports that medical marijuana producers who supply marijuana to patients with debilitating conditions, such as PTSD, are forced to turn away thousands of patients. Rationing is now inevitable, officials say.
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With 93 percent of New Mexico enduring an exceptional drought, two towns in the state have declared a state of emergency and local farmers have been forced to pay high sums to find water.
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A thermal image video of what appears a 7-foot creature lurking in the woods of Valles Caldera, an enormous volcanic crater in the Jemez mountains in northern New Mexico, is drawing the attention of Bigfoot hunters.
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Santa Fe -
A Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill in the New Mexico legislature that would criminalize abortion in rape and incest cases.
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Las Vegas -
Author and BBC reporter, John Sweeney, has claimed to have found evidence of an “alien space cathedral” built by the Church of Scientology.
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Santa Fe -
While California's Proposition 37 ballot initiative to label GMO products seems to have failed, a State Senator in New Mexico is next to take the baton in the fight for labeling of genetically modified food products.
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A New Mexico dad delivered his own daughter in a car recently when his wife's labor suddenly progressed and she was ready to deliver.
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Three men stand accused by US authorities in a bizarre plot to kill Justin Bieber according to a news report today out of Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The five churches highlighted here have distinctive features, including historical significance, unique architectural designs, and stories of miracles.
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Silver City -
A Silver City, New Mexico man is listed in stable condition after he was shot by an employee at Copper County Sporting Arms.
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The Brian Head Fire in the Dixie National Forest is but one of a number of wildfires blazing across the Southwest. U.S. Forest Service
WIPP Carlsbad,N.M. Radiation Leak
Fer. 27,2014. Carl Anderson
“If you’ll build us a spaceport, we’ll bring you a spaceline” Richard Branson
Students are reunited with families at a staging ground set up at the Roswell Mall following an early morning shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, January 14, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Mark Wilson
Casa Real is one of a number of nursing homes run by Preferred Care Partners Management Group of Plano, Texas. screen grab
A New Mexico farm City of Albuquerque Open Space
Students are reunited with families at a staging ground set up at the Roswell Mall following an early morning shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, January 14, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Mark Wilson
One of the banners being used by (Un)Occupy Albuquerque; the group was issued a new permit by the University of New Mexico today, a week after they were evicted from university property.
Students are reunited with families at a staging ground set up at the Roswell Mall following an early morning shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, January 14, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Mark Wilson
Members of (Un)Occupy Albuquerque make their way through downtown, many in Halloween costumes; the theme of the march Saturday (Oct. 29) was a "funeral procession" for the First Amendment after UNM Pres. David Schmidly kicked them off university property earlier in the week and ordered dozens arrested. There were no arrests at today's peaceful protest march.
A shipment carrying Los Alamos transuranic waste heads down NM 502, bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico.
Photo taken: July 8, 2013 LANL
A forested lava dome in the midst of the Valle Grande, the largest meadow in the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Brian0918
Jaydon Chavez-Silver was a star football player at his high school. YouTube screen grab ABC News
Sunlight peeks through a window of an ancient house in Chaco Canyon Wild Earth Guardians
An aerial photo supposedly shows the Church of Scientology's alien space cathedral is in New Mexico Google Earth
Redondo Peak is an example of the volcanic feature known as a resurgent dome. It was formed some time after the main caldera-forming eruptions of about 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago, but it is not itself an eruptive feature. Brian Helsinki
Cow elk & calves (Cervus canadensis) in Valles Caldera, New Mexico. Larry Samsa
The American flag with the New Mexico flag Denise
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