SANTA FE, New Mexico, Sept. 5 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration and the U.S. Department of Energy have executed a Settlement Agreement to clean-up legacy radioactive wastes at Los Alamos National Laboratory, marking a historic moment in the fight to hold the federal government accountable for the toxic waste it left behind in the wake of nuclear weapons testing in New Mexico. The Settlement Agreement, e  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Sept. 5 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is proud to announce the launch of an unprecedented new state-funded workforce housing development funding program. The Opportunity Enterprise Housing Development Program is a $125 million fund that represents the single largest state investment in housing. It's also the first such program focused on housing families that don't qualify for traditional affor  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, was featured as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI. Heinrich is the only member of Congress included in the list. TIME Magazine: Martin Heinrich, U.S. Senator for New Mexico, 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024, 09/05/2024. Martin Heinrich | U.S. Senator for New Mexico   more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 5 -- The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund issued the following news release: * * * Senator Lujan and Ms. Sewald will provide tribute remarks as U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is honored with the 2024 Edward R. Roybal Award for Outstanding Public Service * * * WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) announced today that U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan and Preside  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 5 -- The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2024: * * * Inadequate and fragmented solutions have worsened the crisis for NM students and persisted in violating their Constitutional rights * * * Santa Fe, NM - New Mexico's at-risk students are still not receiving a constitutionally sufficient education and the state has failed to develop a remedy plan, charged the Yazzie/Martinez Plaintiffs in a scathing motion fil  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Trayveon James Johnson, 20, of Alexandria, Va., was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for participating in a wide-spread narcotics trafficking conspiracy that distributed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills purchased in Southern California to destinations throughout the United States, including the District of Columbia. Johnson was one of 2  more