SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is urging New Mexicans to be advised of potential severe winter weather beginning this weekend and to prepare accordingly for what forecasters have said could be record low temperatures...
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Office of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Michael Coleman, Communications Director, Michael.Coleman@exec.nm.gov
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Gov. Lujan Grisham statement on Senate passage of Senate Bill 10
SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday issued the following statement upon the state Senate passage of Senate Bill 10, which will repeal a 1969 state statute criminalizing abortion: “This is a simple bill. And it is powerful in its simplicity. It affirms a...
Gov. Lujan Grisham to head to D.C. for White House meeting
SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will fly Thursday to Washington, D.C., at the invitation of President Joe Biden to take part in a bipartisan meeting of governors and mayors at the White House scheduled for Friday. The meeting is focused on the president’s...
State to phase out travel quarantine requirements
SANTA FE – The state of New Mexico on Wednesday announced a change in its mandatory self-quarantine requirements for visitors into the state, owing to a cautiously brighter pandemic outlook after several months of unsustainable strain on the state’s health care...
Department of Health county map update Feb. 10: More than half the state in Yellow and Green
All counties improve; all but four counties see positivity rate below 10% SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health on Wednesday announced the updated statewide COVID-19 map for the two-week period beginning Feb. 10, with 15 New Mexico counties at the Yellow...
Flags ordered to half-staff in mourning for Officer Jarrott
SANTA FE – All flags are at half-staff in the state of New Mexico, beginning Friday, in mourning for New Mexico State Police Officer Darian Jarrott, who was killed in the line of duty on Interstate 10 on February 4, per an executive order of Gov. Michelle Lujan...
Gov. Lujan Grisham to order flags to half-staff in mourning for NMSP officer killed in line of duty
SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday afternoon announced she will order all flags to half-staff in the state of New Mexico, beginning Friday, in mourning for a uniformed member of the New Mexico State Police who was killed in the line of duty on...
Gov. Lujan Grisham statement on federal climate actions
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s climate actions this week, including an executive order released Wednesday. State agencies continue to analyze the full impact of the prospective action outlined...
Department of Health county map update Jan. 27: Seven reach Yellow Level, one county at Green Level
More than two-thirds of counties now on cusp of Yellow Level; almost every county improving in both health metrics, suppressing virus SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health on Wednesday announced the updated statewide COVID-19 map for the two-week period...
Governor issues third State of the State address
The prepared text of the governor’s 2021 State of the State address is as follows: For the thousands we have lost to the virus in our state, for their grieving families, their friends and loved ones; for any New Mexican who suffered this past year, for any New Mexican...