Tesuque Pueblo Trailer Village resident Alicia Olivas is worried that a new tribal policy will split her family up.

Northern New Mexico suffered many losses after the Las Conchas fire engulfed 150,000 acres this summer.

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It’s 6 pm in the middle of the week, and two-thirds of the seats on a southbound New Mexico Rail Runner Express train are full. Most of the passengers are coming home from a long day of work in Santa Fe. They live near or in Albuquerque, which offers a cheaper cost of living and “more things to do,” as one passenger puts it.

Before her doctor recommended daily doses of medical marijuana, Krista Robbins frequently blacked out. Later, she would awaken with multiple self-inflicted cuts on her body. One was so bad that it required 80 stitches. Robbins, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, says her doctors put her on “more drugs than would kill the average person,” including 1,400 miligrams of Seroquel, a powerful antipsychotic.

Mayor David Coss spent most of his Oct. 19 State of the City address pushing a $30 million bond proposal slated to go before voters in March’s city elections. Coss bills it as the “Opportunity and Quality of Life Bond,” which encompasses 10 city projects including broadband infrastructure, solar energy investment and public park improvements.

If the JSC’s budget remains the same next fiscal year, commission employees will be forced to take two weeks of unpaid leave.

Not long after Pamela Engstrom resigned as principal of Albuquerque’s El Camino Real Charter School, her husband, Anders, requested public documents on the education credentials of a few prominent New Mexico Public Education Department officials.

To some, the Public Regulation Commission is best known for being cozy with the companies it regulates. So it might have come as a surprise when the PRC’s Insurance Division rejected a proposed 9.9 percent rate increase from health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield on Oct. 11.

Gov. Susana Martinez doesn’t have much to show from a special redistricting session that she packed with an ambitious agenda. But one thing she did get was a capital outlay bill, albeit at less than half the size she originally wanted.