By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The largest wildfire burning in the United States was heading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to prepare to evacuate as the fast-moving fire picks up momentum. Fire officials said the blaze was racing up slopes and along exposed …

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers. Immigration authorities stopped migrants 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 33% increase from a …

Remaining evacuation orders lifted in New Mexico wildfire RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire in southern New Mexico that destroyed more than 200 homes now is 56% contained and all remaining evacuation orders have been lifted, authorities said Sunday. “It’s great to get folks back in their homes, especially it being Easter weekend,” Southwest Incident Commander Dave Bales said …

Wind whips destructive wildfires in New Mexico, Colorado By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press Firefighters scouted the drought-stricken mountainsides around a New Mexico village on Wednesday as they looked for opportunities to slow a wind-driven wildfire that a day earlier had burned at least 150 homes and other structures while displacing thousands of residents and forcing the …

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday defied intensifying pressure over his new border policy that has gridlocked trucks entering the U.S. and shut down some of the world’s busiest trade bridges as the Mexican government, businesses and even some allies urge him to relent. The two-term Republican …

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday defied intensifying pressure over his new border policy that has gridlocked trucks entering the U.S. and shut down some of the world’s busiest trade bridges as the Mexican government, businesses and even some allies urge him to relent. The two-term Republican …

SANTA FE – Families for 21,328 New Mexico students will receive benefits on April 10, to reimburse them for free and reduced-price school meals missed due to COVID-related absences. Approximately, $1,479,931 in Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) will be issued to cover meals that K-12 students missed in October and November of last year, after schools returned to in-person learning. …

SANTA FE – Families for 21,328 New Mexico students will receive benefits on April 10, to reimburse them for free and reduced-price school meals missed due to COVID-related absences. Approximately, $1,479,931 in Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) will be issued to cover meals that K-12 students missed in October and November of last year, after schools returned to in-person learning. …

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation Friday to provide payments of $500 to individual adults or $1,000 to households to offset increased prices for fuel and other consumer goods. Payments of $250 per individual are scheduled for June and August under a Democratic-sponsored bill approved Tuesday during a …

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday convicted an elected official from New Mexico of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct during the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden heard one day of testimony without …