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LAS CRUCES - A church-based shelter in Las Cruces is making preparations in case it needs to care for migrant families who have crossed the border. On Wednesday, leaders at El Calvario United Methodist Church on Campo Street welcomed U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and members of the media to show how the center is preparing in case it receives...

The Air Force’s newest, state-of-the-art combat search-and-rescue helicopter has been putting in some serious miles in New Mexico skies in recent months. The HH-60W – which bears two names, the “Jolly Green II” and the “Whiskey” – arrived at Kirtland Air Force Base late last year. And it quickly become part...

A shot of COVID-19 vaccine was plunged into Kristina Zilm’s left arm inside a New Mexico National Guard gym Tuesday afternoon. Just over her right shoulder, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., talked with Guard members about their efforts in distributing vaccines across the state. The senator, during a visit to New Mexico, made his first public...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory were poised to develop technology that could lower the cost of solar energy as the industry continued its growth in New Mexico. Sandia was awarded a $25 million grant last week, per a news release from the U.S. Department of Energy, to build a facility for researchers and manufacturers to develop and test...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Child advocates believe the American Rescue plan will help children, especially minorities, who suffered during the pandemic. "When we invest in our kids, when we put in the time and the effort and the resources, we're making an investment in their future but also in the future of the entire country," said Sen. Martin Heinrich...

Senate Democrats plan to deploy an obscure but powerful legislative weapon in the coming weeks to try to quickly reinstate a major Obama-era climate change rule that the Trump administration had effectively eliminated. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, is expected next month to invoke the 1996 Congressional Review...

As the son of an immigrant, I know firsthand the promise that America represents for those seeking to build a better life. For our country’s entire history, immigrants have overcome incredible adversity and discrimination to play a vital role in this nation’s success. The way we treat immigrants, refugees, and those seeking asylum shows...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Office of Senator Martin Heinrich is offering a free virtual policy workshop for students. The four-part Policy Workshop Series will teach college students how to come up with, formulate, and propose federal policy. The workshops end with student presentations of their own federal policy proposal on immigration,...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is aiming to help shape the Biden administration's climate change agenda, and he's pressing the White House to live up to its promise to not leave fossil fuel producing communities behind as it rolls out its clean energy plans.  Heinrich teamed up with fellow New Mexican Sen. Ben Ray...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M), and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham hosted a virtual news conference Wednesday to discuss the American Rescue Plan. During the conference, they talked about how...

Washington, D.C. - With a total of 51 original co-sponsors, Democrat Darren Soto (Florida) introduced yesterday the new bill in favor of Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state of the United States, setting in motion a process with which Governor Pedro Pierluisi intends to find out if Congress is willing to grant statehood to...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) announced Tuesday they would introduce legislation to start the motions for Puerto Rico statehood. Why it matters: More than 52% of Puerto Ricans voted last November in favor of statehood, three years after Hurricane Maria struck and caused one of the worst natural...

We have known for a long time that pumping unlimited groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer is unsustainable. The future of water for eastern New Mexico communities like Clovis and Portales depends on us securing an alternative supply. That's why I have worked so hard over the last decade to support the construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, is reintroducing three conservation bills with the hope they will gain traction under a bluer Senate and the Biden administration. Heinrich is jump-starting bills to restrict hard-rock mining in the Pecos watershed, bar mining on four federal sites in Sandoval County and designate a section of a...

New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich (D) is calling on the Biden administration to "reorient the driving missions" of public land management agencies toward addressing climate change and away from activities like extractive industry and timber harvesting. Heinrich, who serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the remarks Friday...

Congress voted again to impeach President Trump, and law enforcement is preparing for potential violence at state capitals around the U.S. as we count down to Inauguration Day on Wednesday, Jan. 20. Martin Heinrich is now the senior senator for New Mexico, and he was one of the first lawmakers to see the mob make their way to the Capitol steps....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Sen. Martin Heinrich was upset after seeing images of the National Guard in a parking garage. "It immediately rubbed me the wrong way and I started reaching out to my colleagues to see what they knew," Heinrich said. The senator from New Mexico said he offered his office space to members of the National Guard. "At the end of the...

Martin Heinrich is among 14 U.S. senators calling for an investigation into white supremacy in the military after rioters, including one waving a Confederate flag, ransacked the U.S. Capitol last week. A number of military veterans and service members took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, creating concern they were recruited by violent extremists,...

More help for New Mexico's hospitals, public health systems, and struggling New Mexicans is on the way. Congress finally reached a new bipartisan agreement at the end of last year to support our health care workers and millions of families who are struggling through no fault of their own. The emergency COVID-19 relief package extended unemployment...

This has been the worst year in recorded history for wildfires in the United States, and the vast majority of over 9.5 million acres burned so far has occurred in the American West. Huge sections of states were closed by fire, smoke clogged the air in cities and national forests, monuments, parks and wilderness areas were shut off to visitors....