New Mexico

When a visitor left a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns National Park during a summer visit, rangers describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes that call this specialized subterranean environment home.

The body of an Albuquerque, New Mexico woman was located 150 feet below the rim near Twin Overlooks north of Desert View Drive Wednesday.

Former Taos, N.M., poet laureate Sawnie Morris says as a young girl poetry showed her how events and objects were connected in curious ways. In the latest installment of PoetrySnaps!, she reads her piece called “After the Late-Winter Car Trip.”

Interstate 40 is open in both directions as fire crews continue to watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.

Crews plan to extinguish a fire on Saturday night from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line that forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 40.

Studies have found that so-called forever chemicals have been detected in water sources across New Mexico.

The Navajo Nation, Zuni Pueblo, state of New Mexico and the U.S. Army have finalized a restoration plan for a former military installation near Gallup.

N. Scott Momaday has died at age 89 after becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist.

The official overseeing about $4 billion in federal relief for people affected by a fire in a New Mexico fire set by the Forest Service is being reassigned to help consolidate recovery operations in the state.

Researchers say they have identified a new subspecies thought to be an older and more primitive relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex.