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Those who knew the boy described him as a caring young man who was supportive of the other foster youth living in CYFD facilities. His death comes after consecutive years of the state鈥檚 failure to provide stable foster homes and mental health care for teenagers in its custody.

New Mexico is facing a health care worker shortage. This year, legislators had the opportunity to pass bills making it easier to recruit and retain these professionals, but most legislation failed.

Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj谩n hosted a roundtable discussion Tuesday in Albuquerque with business leaders on President Trump鈥檚 implementation of tariffs and their impacts, and the prevailing theme was uncertainty.

The Forward Party, a political party whose members say they want a return to civility in politics and improvements to U.S. democracy, announced Tuesday it is seeking 3,500 signatures to secure minor party status in New Mexico.

New Mexico Healthcare Authority Secretary Kari Armijo, President of the New Mexico Hospital Association Troy Clark, and Dr. Nancy Wright, a pediatrician in Las Vegas discuss the impacts of potential Medicaid cuts in New Mexico.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday, just hours before the deadline, vetoed House Bill 36, which would have allowed optometrists, who do not attend medical school, to perform delicate eye surgeries with only 36 hours of training and 4 hours working on a model eye unsupervised by an actual eye surgeon.

Cherokee writer and audio journalist Rebecca Nagel鈥檚 recently published book 鈥淏y the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land鈥� explores the forced removal of Native people and the Supreme Court case that resulted in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history.

During the past legislative session, there were a number of efforts to change how the political body works. Those included bills to pay members of the only unpaid legislature in the country and altering the length of the annual sessions. But only one passed 鈥� House Joint Resolution 2, which would require New Mexico governors to give reasons behind a pocket veto.

The Albuquerque City Council on Monday passed a plan that's been in the making for about a year and a half on how to spend millions of dollars in funds meant to fight the opioid epidemic, but there was some debate and disagreement on where the funds should go between the council and the mayor's office.

As new numbers indicate that New Mexico fourth and eighth graders have the lowest reading scores in the nation, state education agencies announced they will host the second annual free Summer Reading Program beginning in June to try and curb summer reading loss.