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While local elections can get a boost on participation when there’s a key office or issue on the ballot, they don’t see near the turnout that statewide and national contests do. However, even without a mayor up for election, Santa Fe County residents came out in large numbers Tuesday. That was not the case for the state’s largest county.

Santa Fe is in desperate need of more housing, especially homes that are affordable to its working-class. Homewise, a non-profit that helps people with home ownership, wants to purchase an open lot where they’d build 160 homes, but neighbors say the project is not what they were promised.

Next month’s local elections are the first since the state required counties provide a minimum number of secured ballot drop boxes to ensure voters have…

The Postal Service is experiencing delays as we approach a November election that may see an unprecedented number of ballots cast by mail. Some voters are…

Santa Fe County is holding a special election Tuesday to decide whether to raise the gross receipts tax to fund behavioral health services.If voters…

The Santa Fe County Commission will be asking voters if they would support a tax increase to pay for behavioral health services. Commissioners voted to…

A land developer who wants to strip mine La Bajada mesa for basalt rock has filed a lawsuit against Santa Fe County.Developers of Buena Vista Estates and…

Proponents of a proposal to mine basalt on La Bajada mesa are suing Santa Fe County for imposing a 12-month moratorium on such developments.Albuquerque…

A federal judge has refused to referee a legal fight over whether two New Mexico counties can put nonbinding questions about marijuana and taxes on the…

New Mexico's top election official says she won't place nonbinding questions about marijuana penalties on the November general election ballot for voters…