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Orrin Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history and was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, has died at age 88
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Utah is one of the latest states to approve studies of the medicinal properties of hallucinogenic mushrooms and their effect on mental health issues, including PTSD.
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A wildfire in southern New Mexico has claimed the lives of two people and more than 200 structures have burned.
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Dairy farmers in New Mexico can seek reimbursement from the federal government for cows contaminated by chemicals that have leached into the groundwater around an Air Force base in the eastern part of that state.
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New Mexico officials say fire crews are working at least two blazes that started when prescribed burns jumped containment lines. Hundreds of homes near Albuquerque and Belen have been evacuated.
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An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container discovered a small amount of radioactive liquid inside it.
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Big Box retail giant Walmart will no longer sell cigarettes in some of its stores. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report this week’s development.
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Two tribal communities in New Mexico are working to ensure they'll be free from federal interference if they take part in that state’s cannabis market set to launch in April.
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First Lady Jill Biden wrapped up a three-day trip promoting her husband’s economic agenda in Arizona and Nevada with a tour at a community college in Reno.
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A coalition of environmentalists and nuclear watchdogs has delivered more than 1,100 petition signatures to New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham asking that her administration take all steps necessary to stop any expansion of the federal government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico.