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A DC-10 retrofitted for fighting forest fires makes a slurry drop over the Thompson Ridge Fire in the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Jemez Mountains,Thursday, June 6, 2013 in Albuquerque, N.M. With changes in the weather fast approaching, firefighters were racing Thursday to build bigger buffers around a pair of wildfires that have charred 34 square miles of tinder-dry forest in northern New Mexico.  (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Dean Hanson)  SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT: DEAN HANSON/THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL

Film crews endure smoke as NM wildfires burn

The Valles Caldera National Preserve is considered one of the natural jewels of northern New Mexico, with its expansive meadows, mountain vistas and famous elk herds. It draws thousands of visitors each year and serves as the backdrop for the opening scene of A&E Network's television series "Longmire." Now, hundreds ...

Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)

Winning numbers drawn in 'Mega Millions' game

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 01-10-37-48-55, Mega Ball: 21 (one, ten, thirty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-five; Mega Ball: twenty-one) Estimated jackpot: $14 million

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2006 photo provided by Yellowstone National Park, a gray wolf is seen on the run near Blacktail Pond in Yellowstone National Park in Park County, Wyo. The Obama administration on Friday June 7, 2013, will propose lifting federal protections for gray wolves across most of the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts but has been criticized by some scientists as premature. (AP Photo/Yellowstone National Park, File)

Obama proposes lifting Lower 48 wolf protections

The Obama administration on Friday proposed lifting most remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts. State and federal agencies have spent more than $117 million restoring the predators since they were added to the endangered species ...

Feds propose expanding range for Mexican wolves

Endangered Mexican gray wolves would have more room to roam in the Southwest under a proposal unveiled Friday. The provisions regarding the Mexican wolves are part of a plan proposed by the Obama administration that calls for lifting most of the remaining federal protections for gray wolves. Protections would remain ...

Panel considering 5 candidates for regulatory post

Five government, insurance and health care officials are in the running to manage New Mexico's newly independent insurance regulatory agency. Among the candidates are state Insurance Superintendent John Franchini and Milton Sanchez, who directs the Office of Health Care Reform in Gov. Susana Martinez's administration. Sanchez was the New Mexico ...

In this June 7, 2013 photo, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is shown at a news conference in Albuquerque announcing a new customer service program at a Motor Vehicle Division office. Martinez, the nation’s only Latina governor, told the Associated Press on Friday that she was glad the Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market is reviewing its employee language policy after two Spanish-speaking Albuquerque employees said they were suspended. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

Whole Foods reviewing language policy amid NM flap

Whole Foods Market is reviewing its employee language policy after two of its Spanish-speaking workers in New Mexico said they were suspended after complaining about it, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The Austin, Texas-based organic grocery chain is re-examining the policy "as we speak, and it will be the topic ...

A truck carries the first two containers of low-level radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, inside the grounds of a federal disposal site Thursday, June 6, 2013, near Andrews, Texas, as it begins a short trip down to where they were placed into a reinforced 8-inch-thick concrete container and will remain forever. Officials from the Dallas-based company, the Department of Energy, New Mexico and Texas cut the ribbon to open the site a short time before the two containers were placed in the more than 9-foot-deep container. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney)

Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste

Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal lab in New Mexico — the latest step in Simmons' vision of a site that accepts all types of waste. The first two containers carrying radioactive waste from Los Alamos ...

FILE - This April 15, 2013 file photo shows Valley Meat Co., which has  been sitting idle for more than a year, waiting for the Department of Agriculture to approve its plans to slaughter horses. A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the company's attorney blames on the Obama administration putting politics over policy. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing, File)

Horse slaughterhouse accuses USDA of IRS tactics

A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the company's attorney blames on the Obama administration putting politics over policy. Blair Dunn, who represents Valley Meat Co. of Roswell in its more ...

No Jackpot Winner

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 04-26-33-36-55 Powerball: 32 (four, twenty-six, thirty-three, thirty-six, fifty-five; Powerball: thirty-two) Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $50 million jackpot. The prize goes to an ...

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