Jessica Dyer

After more than a year of studies for a potential education center, the city of Albuquerque announced it is no longer considering a new education center at the Elena Gallegos Open Space.

Like the city of Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico, Bernalillo County just passed an ordinance aimed at making it harder to sell a stolen catalytic converter.

City Councilors Louie Sanchez and Renee Grout want to put a charter amendment on this fall's ballot that would dramatically reshape municipal government by shifting most of the mayor's current duties to a hired city manager.

The Bernalillo County-run Metropolitan Detention Center - where 21 inmates have died in three years - is turning to wrist-worn technology to better monitor detainees' vital signs.

The City Council rejected Tammy Fiebelkorn's "residential rental database ordinance" on a 7-2 vote, heeding landlord concerns that it was intrusive, burdensome and anti-business.

Eight months after the city shut down Coronado Park to break up the large homeless encampment that had for years developed on site, officials are detailing how they plan to repurpose the property north of Downtown.

The Albuquerque City Council on Monday approved legislation aimed at curbing nonpayment of speed camera fines. It allows parking officers to ticket, boot or even impound vehicles tied to repeated unpaid speed camera citations when those vehicles are parked on city streets or at city facilities.

The 2023 campaign season has begun for the four Albuquerque City Council seats on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Station 37 is slated to cover the far West Side, including the county jail and the business corridor encompassing the Amazon fulfillment center.

The 21,000-square-foot visitor center just outside Albuquerque's western boundary, on Nine Mile Hill, includes a taproom, event space, museum and amphitheater.