Torrents of rain, wildfires and an earthquake. California had it all on Sunday. A state preoccupied with The Big One faced calamities both big and small. A rare tropical storm left at least one person dead as it blasted through Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Sunday and crossed into heavily populated Southern California, threatening what…
Tropical Storm Arlene formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, making it the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Arlene was 265 miles west of Fort Myers, Fla., early Friday afternoon and was moving south toward Cuba at five miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. The storm…
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on a residential street in Farmington, N.M., on Monday morning, killing three people before the police arrived and killed the suspect, the authorities said. Nine other people, including two officers, were injured. The authorities received several reports of shots fired near North Dustin Avenue and East Navajo Street just before…
A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In a small village in northern New Mexico, some residents still speak the oldest…
A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges related to the 2021 disappearance of Ella Mae Begay, a Native American woman whose case brought attention to missing and murdered Native American people, prosecutors said. Preston Henry Tolth, 23, was indicted on March 14 on charges of assault resulting…
Months before the November election, Mr. Garcia asked a New Mexico court to bar Mr. Peña from appearing on the ballot because of the convictions, according to The Albuquerque Journal. The court ruled in Mr. Peña’s favor, saying that a state law that bars felons from holding office unless they are pardoned by the governor…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Biden sought to persuade Americans on Thursday that the economy is doing better on his watch than many believe and warned that Republicans would make it harder for the middle class to afford education, health care and other necessities if they win Congress next week. “The economy is up, price inflation…