Aug. 3—The former director of a state agency that offers job placement assistance to people with disabilities alleges in a new whistleblower complaint she was fired in February after resisting what she calls an illegal plan to shift her division to the Department of Workforce Solutions. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hired Diane Mourning Brown to direct the largely federally funded Division of ...

Aug. 3—Ninety-four infections among people being held at the Torrance County Detention Facility near Estancia helped spur a spike that put New Mexico close to 500 coronavirus cases Tuesday. In another troubling sign the virus is beginning to regain its grip on New Mexico, the state Department of Health said 180 people are now hospitalized with COVID-19. The agency also reported New Mexico had ...

The Democratic governors of 4 New York–adjacent states jointly call on Cuomo to resign