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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2006, image, Wayne Baker shovels spilled peanuts back into a trailer during a peanut harvest near Floyd, N.M. Federal agriculture forecasts show there will be significantly fewer peanuts pulled from the ground in eastern New Mexico during the 2014 harvest season because of fallout from the bankruptcy and sale of a Portales-area peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide recall. (AP Photo/Clovis News-Journal, Andy DeLisle)

Peanut farmers deal with fallout from salmonella

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · October 15, 2014 8:27 pm

Crew members of the hot air balloon dubbed "First Light," prepare to inflate the envelope during the Aloft event at S.Y. Jackson Elementary School, marking the first official event of this year's Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. The nine-day fiesta gets underway Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, with a mass ascension of hundreds of balloons at balloon fiesta park. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Map app will help New Mexico balloon fiesta pilots

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · October 4, 2014 1:06 am

Ranch family takes water fight to NM Supreme Court

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · September 23, 2014 7:42 pm

In an undated photo provided by Mercy for Animals, worker whips a cow with a chain at a southern New Mexico dairy in this still frame made from video recorded secretly. The New Mexico Livestock Board has launched an investigation into the dairy after an activist working with the animal welfare group recorded secret video showing workers whipping cows with chains and wire cables, kicking and punching the animals, and shocking them with electric prods. (AP Photo/Mercy for Animals)

Group levels abuse allegations against NM dairy

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · September 17, 2014 10:41 pm

Museum to put 3 O’Keeffe paintings up for auction

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · September 12, 2014 10:12 pm

New Mexico’s green chile harvest in full swing

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · September 10, 2014 6:30 am

FILE - In this May 15, 2014, file photo, Otero cattle rancher association President Gary Stone inspects a newly posted warning sign in Weed, New Mexico. Ranchers from throughout New Mexico, the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau and several cattlemen groups filed their lawsuit Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. In the latest dispute over public lands in the West, the forest service has closed off some areas this year to prevent damage to the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse's habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Habitat protections have also been proposed for parts of Arizona and Colorado. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)

Ranchers sue feds over access to mouse habitat

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · September 9, 2014 9:05 pm

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2009, file photo, shows the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, N.M. The Santa Fe-based group New Energy Economy is challenging the estimated costs of a plan by PNM to close two units at the power plant and replace the power with a mix of coal, nuclear and solar energy. The group contends PNM didn't include more than a half-billion dollars of ongoing capital expenditures in the calculations and failed to weigh the costs of environmental regulations and the disposal of coal ash waste generated by the power plant. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Costs of coal power plant proposal challenged

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 29, 2014 10:28 pm

Fresh green chile and chile products are displayed as state officials announce a new certification program aimed at protecting the reputation and integrity of New Mexico-grown chile during an event at The Range restaurant in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. The restaurant is the first to sign up to participate in the program. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

New Mexico chile gets certified-product safeguards

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 19, 2014 10:31 pm

Jeff Mitchell, the director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico, details the findings of a comprehensive study of the economic impacts of New Mexico's arts and culture industries during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The report found that the industries employ more than 76,000 people and have an economic impact of about $5.6 billion. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Report: Arts, culture have $5.6B impact in NM

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 13, 2014 11:54 pm

Top federal officials discuss energy development

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 11, 2014 8:38 pm

New Mexico woman sues employer over medical pot

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 6, 2014 11:33 pm