Cathy Cook

They released 18,000 silvery minnows into the Rio Grande.
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A lot of human effort goes into conserving the minnows, and last week was like the Super Bowl for those conservationists.

Rio Grande silvery minnows used to be one of the most prolific fish in the river. Now, they occupy 7% of their historic range.

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New Mexico plans to spend $30 million to fill the gap of SNAP delays

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The Navajo Nation is investing nearly $3 million into a commercial scale test of technology that could make cleaning up abandoned uranium mines faster and cheaper.

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warms The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

I have written one story about this $8.6 million bosque restoration project each year I've been at the Albuquerque Journal. The trilogy is complete; they finished the project.
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It's unclear exactly how many NNSA employees in New Mexico have been furloughed
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Nevada's other Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, is one of the few Dems to break with party lines and support the Republican bill

The National Nuclear Security Administration furloughed 80% of its federal workers today. During a press conference on the furloughs, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called for Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen to vote for the Republican spending bill.

Asha the wolf is back in the wild
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The money needed to maintain and modernize U.S. nuclear weapons has risen, according to a new 10 year cost estimate
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The latest Mexican gray wolf news
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After partnering on a bill earlier this year to make selling federally owned public lands harder, Reps. Gabe Vasquez and Ryan Zinke launched a bipartisan Public Lands Caucus this morning.

Rep. Stansbury's sign definitely made a splash last night. Democrats also showed their displeasure by not attending, like Sen. Heinrich, and by walking out. It's certainly not the party's first walkout. Dems also walked out of Gerald Ford's 1975 state of the union.

A look at the guests NM's congressional delegation brought to Trump’s address.
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Energy Sec. Chris Wright visited Los Alamos National Laboratory today
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Vasquez hears from lower Rio Grande farmworkers HATCH — Congressman Gabe Vasquez sat down Thursday evening with farmworkers from New Mexico’s Hatch and Rincon valleys, who told him about working conditions, wages, housing and some of their

Congressman Gabe Vasquez sat down Thursday evening with farmworkers from New Mexico’s Hatch and Rincon valleys.

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How are the mass federal layoffs affecting the Gila National Forest? Around 40% of the crews that oversee the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southern New Mexico were laid off, according to Justin Schatz, a former field lead for a

Around 40% of the crews that oversee the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southern New Mexico were laid off, according to Justin Schatz, a former field lead for a trail crew there.

Guided tours at Carlsbad Caverns are on hold and all the tutors at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute have been fired.
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Wildland firefighting program that encouraged women to join field on pause after Trump DEI order A camp that prepared women to become wildland firefighters has been paused because of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal gov...

Wildland firefighting is a male-dominated field. U.S. Forest Service fire workforce was 87% male in 2024. A camp meant to help women enter the profession is on hold
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Many papers have shrunk, but some are just hollowed out. I'm glad to be at the Albuquerque Journal where there's still reporters with different beats, photojournalists and a design team

It makes me think of covering elections at a small town newspaper while a crew of builders and painters were turning the vacant office space near me into storage units. The building was oversized because the newspaper staff shrunk.

A little tragic to see a pair of Gannett owned newspapers, one in Las Cruces and one in Mississippi, with the same typo in their social media posts on a Red Lobster celebration in a week when there is actually so much substantive news to cover

A look at what Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich say in their letter to Trump about potential Indian Health Service layoffs
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Sen. Ben Ray Luján, along with several of his Democratic Senate colleagues, sent President Trump a letter Friday urging him to stop potential layoffs of 850 Indian Health Service staff

Bill to ban transgender women from participating in female sports tabled SANTA FE — Once again in the Roundhouse, it’s unlikely Democratic legislators will let a bill through that would ban transgender women from participating in female sports.

It was a pretty cordial environment right until the end, when a spat broke out. Democrats tabled legislation yesterday that would prevent transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, similar to Trump's recent executive order.

New Mexico’s congressional delegation is urging President Donald Trump to stop firing federal workers, which they believe could have a significant economic impact in the state
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