There are gyms all over Santa Fe at which you can swing a kettlebell, do squats until your butt falls off, or even watch Cake Boss while monitoring your calories burned. But if you want to join a basketball team or learn how to perfectly execute the butterfly, it may be time to go back to school—the community college, that is.

In what some are calling a politically motivated decision, the New Mexico Environment Department green-lighted a uranium mine’s permit despite unanswered questions about environmental contamination.

More than 7,000 acres of New Mexico riparian areas, from the Jicarilla wetlands in the northwest to the middle Rio Grande Valley, have been the beneficiary of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, which matches states’ conservation dollars with money designated for restoring wetland habitats.

The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and two nonprofit environmental groups are trying to get Rio Grande Resources Corp. to clean up uranium waste at the Mt. Taylor mine near Grants.

On Aug. 25, the New Mexico Game Commission will decide whether to release fish-killing poison into a Rio Grande tributary—all with the ironic goal of protecting the state fish.

It may not lead to any high-profile celebrity sightings in the City Different, but a new movie project will spotlight the history of uranium mining in New Mexico.

When Lynn Pickard agreed to help a man get an appointment for a new driver’s license at the state Motor Vehicle Division, she thought it would be as simple as making a phone call or visiting a website.

The virulent Heidelberg Salmonella strain that has so far caused illness in 79 people around the country is drawing comparisons to a separate strain, Salmonella Kentucky, which is the focus of a just-released study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

For Atalaya Elementary School physical education teacher Kristy Filbin, a simple game of Frisbee golf underscores a major shortcoming in Santa Fe’s public schools.

The animals of northern New Mexico know drought by a different name: hunger.