Warnings of critical fire conditions blanketed much of the U.S. Southwest on Saturday as crews in northern New Mexico worked to stop the growth of the nation's largest active wildfire. The 7-week-old fire, the largest in New Mexico history, has...

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death Wednesday after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state's use of the death penalty brought on by a nearly two-hour execution that critics say was b...

Over 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the U.S., after strong winds had pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a small city in northern New Mexico. Calmer winds on Saturday...

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes. Hundreds of structures were lost in a growing number of...

Firefighters are battling a wind-driven blaze that has burned at least 150 homes, barns and other structures in a mountain community in drought-stricken New Mexico. The blaze on the northeastern side of Ruidoso was fueled by winds between 50 and 90...

PHOENIX (AP) — Citing the state's surge of COVID-19 cases, Arizona's top education official on Saturday called for Gov. Doug Ducey to order that public schools use only distance learning for the next two weeks unless they have waivers from health o...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft's rocket motor failed to ignite and it then glided down safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico. The spacecraft's engine is supposed to igni...

The pursuit of a wanted man by New Mexico deputies ended after he called his mother and then got a call from the sheriff — another one of his relatives — who urged him to surrender. Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington said he called 29-...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The shooting death of a prominent forensic psychiatrist who assisted in high-profile murder cases including serial killings in Phoenix is connected to the killing of two paralegals, said authorities, who were investigating Sa...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Hopi Tribe and coal mining groups on Tuesday sued the operator of an Arizona aqueduct system to try and keep a coal-fired power plant running beyond 2019. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the tribe, the United Mine Worke...

PHOENIX (AP) — High school students who helped organize a March For Our Lives rally in Phoenix told a crowd of thousands Saturday they need to vote and cast out officeholders who won't act on gun control. "Guess what? We can vote them out. Vote t...

PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. officials said Wednesday that they have proposed ending the Obama administration's ban on new uranium mining leases on public land outside Grand Canyon National Park. The Forest Service proposed the change in response to P...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who put her 17-month-old daughter in a stroller, pushed her into the desert and left her to die on the nation's largest American Indian reservation has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. U.S. District Judge David C...

PHOENIX (AP) — An appellate court ruled Thursday that Arizona colleges and universities can prohibit medical marijuana on campuses but lawmakers can't make it a crime. The medical marijuana law approved by Arizona voters in 2010 allowed c...

PHOENIX (AP) — Police uncovered evidence that blood was cleaned up in a Phoenix home where a mother says her toddler shot and killed his 9-year-old brother, leading to new murder accusations against the parents, according to court documents r...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico House on Saturday advanced half of a budget solvency plan but deferred action on the plans' other two bills until the coming week. The House was in session Saturday as lawmakers worked to dig the state out of an $...

PHOENIX (AP, Oct. 13, 2016) — A stretch of Interstate 10 prone to dust storms in the southern Arizona desert will get a sophisticated system of sensors and other technology to tell drivers to slow down and allow authorities to remotely monitor d...