This story was reported in partnership with the Jal Record, a weekly newspaper based in southeastern New Mexico.

JAL - Like many areas in New Mexico, water is in short supply in this southeastern oil patch town of 2,500 people.

In the past few years, city officials have tried to address the matter by limiting water use, including barring businesses from buying city water for industrial use in the summer of 2013.

But between 2012 and 2014, the city gave one ranch an unusual perk—a more than $1 million discount on its water bills. On top of this, Jal continued to sell industrial water to Beckham Ranch, Inc. for six months after the ban went into effect.

Public records indicate that...

The case against Phil Griego is growing.

The former State Senator may have a “slush fund” where he took money from political donations to a political committee.

Griego is already facing trial on nine public corruption charges related to a real estate deal the then-Senator profited from that was only made possible by legislation passed by the Legislature.

Now, it appears the investigation is going into the San Jose Democrat’s political campaign accounts.

That latest revelation, reported by by the Albuquerque Journal and Santa Fe New Mexican, comes after a district judge granted a warrant to an investigator in the AG’s office to examine Griego’s bank records with Griego’s...

Audit reveals the state potentially failed to collect at least $193 million in premium taxes from insurance companies

Staff Reports

SANTA FE – On Sept. 20, State Auditor Tim Keller released a special audit of premium taxes collected by the state of New Mexico. New Mexico’s Office of the Superintendent of Insurance is responsible for accurate and timely collection of premium taxes from insurance providers that do business in the state. A sample of one-quarter of the total premium tax collected from 2010 to 2015 revealed that the state may have been underpaid at least $193 million just for those transactions. The total amount due to the state for all transactions is likely to be...

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