From Clovis hunters and Pueblo communities to Route 66, Roswell, and the atomic age, New Mexico’s story reaches far beyond its 1912 statehood.

A measure that would have allowed adoptees to access their original birth certificates died in the Legislature this year.

The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.

Environmental groups sued the Bureau of Land Management over plans to realign and pave a road through Utah’s Gate Canyon, likening the project to "constructing a highway through the Louvre Museum."