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New Mexico Governor Urges Wildfire Prevention

Mar 29 2012 // Gov. Susana Martinez says conditions are in place for another difficult fire season in New Mexico. The governor kicked off Wildfire Awareness Week on Tuesday by urging residents to be prepared and do their part to prevent...

Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths In New Mexico Slightly Up

Mar 15 2012 // State records show that alcohol-related deaths from traffic crashes in New Mexico rose slightly. Preliminary Traffic Safety Bureau records indicate 146 people were killed in highway crashes involving alcohol in 2011....

Poms Names Rossetti Vice President of Employee Benefits in New Mexico

Feb 22 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named John Rossetti vice president of the employee benefits group in the firm’s Albuquerque, N.M. office. Rossetti was previously an account...

Space Flight Liability Bill Grounded In New Mexico

Feb 9 2012 // Members of the New Mexico House and Senate have likely shelved for this session an effort to exempt spacecraft manufacturers from legal liability in case space flight passengers are injured in future space flights from...

2011 Was Busy Year for Firefighters in New Mexico

Jan 21 2012 // New Mexico may have more snow on the ground as it starts the new year, but much of the state remains in drought and fire officials are preparing for what could be another rough year. State Forestry officials have outlined...

New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission Mulls Overhauls

Jan 13 2012 // Members of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission are considering recommendations for overhauling the agency’s hiring policies and shifting some of its duties to other state departments. The commission sets...

Judge Dismisses Most Claims in New Mexico Gay Bias Lawsuit

Jan 9 2012 // A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a New Mexico lawsuit by two women who alleged their daughter’s teacher discriminated against the girl because her parents are gay. Shannon Peterson and Jessica Bissell sued...

2011 Was Busy Year for Firefighters in New Mexico

Jan 5 2012 // New Mexico may have more snow on the ground as it starts the new year, but much of the state remains in drought and fire officials are preparing for what could be another rough year. State Forestry officials have outlined...

Former New Mexico Hospital Exec Sued Over Missing $3.2M

Dec 29 2011 // A recently filed lawsuit accuses a former executive at a New Mexico hospital of bilking the care center out of more than $3 million by funneling the money through companies he owned in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. The...

New Mexico Drought Matter of Perspective, Risk

Sep 16 2011 // Perhaps it’s a matter of perspective. If you’re a cattle rancher in New Mexico without enough grass to feed your stock, it’s a drought. If you’re a satellite orbiting a couple of hundred miles away...

Earthquake Hits Rural Colorado, Too

Aug 24 2011 // Virginia’s earthquake isn’t the only notable temblor to hit the United States this week. On Monday the largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 40 years shook hundreds of people in the southern part of...

Insurance Pays $55 Million for New Mexico Freeze

Jul 28 2011 // The natural gas shortage and record freezing temperatures that slammed New Mexico in February cost insurance companies $55 million in claims. A memo from the state Public Regulation Commission’s Insurance Division...

Wildfire Still Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Facility

Jun 30 2011 // Wildfire is threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, and has burned more than 10,000 acres, local officials report. Although an increase in humidity early Tuesday was a short-term benefit, rounds...

Wildfires Continue to Plague Arizona, New Mexico

Jun 22 2011 // Fourteen homes have been destroyed in Arizona yesterday, after the Monument Fire burning near Sierra Vista went south into neighborhoods. All told, there are six fires burning in Arizona, and five in New Mexico. As of June...

Some evacuees in AZ, NM Return Home From Wildfires

Jun 20 2011 // Some residents evacuated because of wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico were allowed to return to their homes as firefighters battled strong winds and hot weather to try to keep more houses, dry forests and stretches of...

BLM Instituting Fire Restrictions in Southern New Mexico

Apr 12 2011 // The Las Cruces, N.M., district of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is instituting fire restrictions. The restrictions will go into effect April 13 because of high to extreme fire conditions. The order covers land...

New Mexico Regulator OKs Insurance Company Rate Request

Apr 8 2011 // State Insurance Superintendent John Franchini has approved a double-digit rate increase for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico. The rate increase will average 21 percent and affects about 40,000 people. The state...

New Mexico Wrecking Companies Alerted to Potential Fraud

Mar 28 2011 // Tbe New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s Transportation Division has put wrecker/towing companies on notice that it will strictly enforce the provisions of the New Mexico Motor Carrier Act, in light of recent...

New Mexico Nominee Withdraws Over Liability for Background Check

Mar 2 2011 // The former U.S. senator and astronaut who withdrew his name from consideration as New Mexico’s next energy secretary is defending his stance on background checks for top state government officials. Harrison Schmitt...

New Mexico Fraud Bill Would Allow Judges to Aggregate Claims

Feb 28 2011 // The New Mexico Senate has passed a bill giving judges authority to aggregate the dollar amount of false insurance claims to determine the penalty before sentencing a fraudster. Judges can impose harsher sentences by...