Sources: Reuters
At least two people are killed and 309 others are rescued in flash flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. 2024-10-20
Research into the White Sands fossil footprints in New Mexico reveals that human settlement in North America may have originated earlier than previously assumed. 2023-10-7
A man is arrested for the killings of three Pakistani men last month and for the murder of an Afghan man in November 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The alleged killer targeted the victims "because he was angry over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim"; all the victims were Shiite. 2022-08-9
New Mexico reports a record 2,112 new cases, bringing the statewide total to 67,559 cases. 2020-11-17
At least eight people are reported dead and many sent to hospitals after a bus crash on a New Mexico highway. 2018-08-30
A federal judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico sentences an ex-Los Alamos physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to spy on the US to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon, to five years imprisionment. 2015-01-28
Copies of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and other Atari games that were buried in 1983 are discovered in a New Mexican desert. 2014-04-26
Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013. 2011-10-17
A wildfire worsens near major U.S. nuclear weapons research lab Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico; residents express concern about contamination. 2011-06-29
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico is temporarily closed due to a wildfire burning nearby. 2011-06-27