Executives said outages could affect the City Different, the East Mountains area and Las Vegas, N.M., into Friday morning.

PNM has implemented its first-ever public safety power shutoff Thursday afternoon in the East Mountains to mitigate wildfire risk. A public safety power shutoff, or a “PSPS”, is something new as power companies more fully recognize how power lines can cause potentially devastating wildfires,

Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.