Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Monarch E&S Acquires Market Finders in New Mexico
Jun 5 2025 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services acquired Market Finders Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MFI is a managing general agent and wholesale broker founded in 1971. MFI specializes in both personal and commercial lines,...
Radio Calls for Help Sent 45 Seconds Before Mexican Ship Hit Brooklyn Bridge
May 21 2025 // The Mexican navy tall ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge was underway for less than 5 minutes before its masts crashed into the historic span, and radio calls indicating it was in distress went out only 45 seconds before...
Turbulent Waters May Have Been Factor in Mexican Ship’s Crash Into Brooklyn Bridge
May 19 2025 // When a Mexican navy tall ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, it was maneuvering in turbulent waters. The tide had just turned, and a fast current was heading up the East River as a 10 mph wind set in. While such hazards...
Mexican Navy Ship Hits Brooklyn Bridge, Killing Two on Crew
May 18 2025 // A Mexican naval vessel carrying 277 people scraped the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, leaving two crew members dead. The tall ship Cuauhtémoc “lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn...
New Mexico Utilities Tell Residents to Prepare for Outages When Fire Risk is High
May 9 2025 // Electric providers in New Mexico told the state’s utility regulator at citizens at a hearing on Thursday in Santa Fe that residents should be prepared to potentially lose power when high winds and dry conditions...
New Mexico Insurance Department Moving to Increase FAIR Plan Limits
Apr 8 2025 // New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance Alice Kane increased maximum residential property insurance limits for policies from $350,000 to $750,000 through the New Mexico Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan. The move...
Nearly a Quarter of Homes in New Mexico Uninsured, Report Shows
Apr 7 2025 // New Mexico has the highest rate of uninsured homes in a report that also shows nearly one-in-seven U.S. homes are uninsured, and 11.3 million out of 82.9 million owner-occupied homes (13.6%) are uninsured. A report from...
Nearly a Quarter of Homes in New Mexico Uninsured, Report Shows
Mar 24 2025 // New Mexico has the highest rate of uninsured homes in a report that also shows nearly one-in-seven U.S. homes are uninsured, and 11.3 million out of 82.9 million owner-occupied homes (13.6%) are uninsured. A rerport from...
Supreme Court Leans Toward Gun Companies’ Bid to Avoid Mexico’s Trafficking Lawsuit
Mar 4 2025 // U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Tuesday toward a bid by two American gun companies to throw out the Mexican government’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels...
Mexico’s Sheinbaum Threatens to Sue Google Over ‘Gulf of America’ Maps Change
Feb 14 2025 // Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened a civil lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps service following an executive order Donald Trump signed after taking...
Record Levels of Forever Chemicals Found in Wildlife Near New Mexico Base
Feb 3 2025 // Environmental regulators and health officials in New Mexico are warning hunters that harmful chemicals known to cause cancer in people have been found at record levels in birds, small mammals and plants at a lake near...
New Mexico P.I. First to Admit Guilt in Bribe Scheme to Get Drunk Drivers off Hook
Jan 28 2025 // A private investigator embroiled in a corruption scandal that rocked New Mexico’s law enforcement community for over a decade was the first to plead guilty to a slew of federal charges that include racketeering and...
USDA Halts Mexican Cattle Imports, Impacting Millions in Texas Livestock Industry
Jan 13 2025 // A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound cattle worth millions of dollars for the past six weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has banned Mexican cattle imports...
Hub Acquires Woods Insurance Services in New Mexico
Jan 9 2025 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Woods Insurance Services Inc. in Farmington, New Mexico. Lyle Love, owner and president, and the Woods Insurance Services team, will join Hub Southwest. Woods Insurance...
End of Criminal New Mexico Movie Shooting Case Against Baldwin May Unlock Civil Suit
Dec 31 2024 // The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath,...
New Mexico Seeks $47.8M Fine for Excess Air Pollution by Natural Gas Processor
Dec 9 2024 // New Mexico environmental regulators have issued a $47.8 million fine on allegations of excess air pollution at a natural gas processing facility in a prolific oil production region near the Texas state line. The state...
New Mexico Man Gets $412M Medical Malpractice Payout for Botched Injections
Dec 2 2024 // Jurors in New Mexico have awarded a man more than $412 million in a medical malpractice case that involved a men’s health clinic that operates in several states. The man’s attorneys celebrated last week’s...
New Mexico City Reaches $20M Settlement in Death of Woman Shot by Officer
Nov 27 2024 // A city in New Mexico has reached a $20 million settlement with the family of a woman who was shot and killed by a police officer now charged with second-degree murder. Teresa Gomez, 45, was fatally shot in October 2023...
About 17% of Gulf of Mexico Oil Production Shut Due to Hurricane Rafael
Nov 7 2024 // About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane Rafael, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on Wednesday. Energy...
Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops
Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...
