New Mexico

Trinity Site is usually closed to the public because of its proximity to the impact zone for missiles fired at White Sands Missile Range. But twice a year the site opens to spectators.

The balloon was part of the annual Albuquerque Balloon Festival.

The fiesta, with more than 500 balloons filling the sky, has morphed into one of the most photographed events in the world.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors stop by every year for the 9-day international balloon festival in New Mexico.

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

Dozens of people gathered for the release Friday of 20 more adult tortoises on the property, which is already home to 23 of them as well as dozens of juvenile ones

Authorities say a wandering bull moose was captured in downtown Santa Fe on Tuesday and relocated to a suitable habitat in northern New Mexico.

Officers relocated a bull moose that had wandered into downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, in one of the southernmost sightings of a moose in the state.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque has drawn an immediate court challenge Saturday from a gun-rights group.

An attorney for Epstein’s estate, Daniel Weiner, confirmed Tuesday that the ranch had been sold for an undisclosed price, and the proceeds would be used to administer the estate and pay creditors.

Virgin Galactic took its first space tourists on a long-delayed rocket ship ride, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he’s open to granting assistance for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing, including in New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in 1945.

A father and his 14-year-old son were charged after the teen allegedly used his dad’s gun to kill a girl in New Mexico on Friday, according to the New Mexico Department of Public Safety.

The U.S. Forest Service says its own prescribed burn started a 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico.

The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years.

Former clients of a beauty spa in New Mexico are being urged to get tested for blood-borne infections after a new HIV case was linked to “vampire facials” at the spa.

An argument over seating at an Albuquerque movie theater escalated into a shooting that left a man dead and sent frightened filmgoers scrambling to flee, police said Monday.

Red River Mayor Linda Calhoun said in a video posted on Facebook that the shooting around 5 p.m. resulted in three fatalities and five victims were transported to hospitals in Denver, Albuquerque and nearby Taos.

The police chief of Farmington, New Mexico says it appears an 18-year-old man who shot and killed three people and wounded six others fired at random as he roamed the neighborhood.

Multiple people were injured, according to police.