Top Local Stories 2025
State pilot program giving $500 a month to homeless high school students
Santa Fe, NM (KKOB)-Homeless high school students in New Mexico that meet attendance and academic requirements, could receive $500 a month as part of a new first-of-its kind program. 350 students in grades 10-12 across 12 school districts and one charter school, will be enro...
1h ago
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Valencia county tax payers asked to hold off on payments
Albuquerque(KKOB)- Valencia County residents are being asked to hold off paying their property taxes. According to the Valencia County Treasurer's Office, the 2025 property tax mill rates for county properties were sent out using the wrong taxable value. According to treasu...
2h ago
Teens charged with aggravated burlary
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- Four teens were arrested Monday in Las Cruces on multiple charges including aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon. The teens are accused in a gun store robbery on November 22nd at Strykers Shooting World. They allegedly used a stolen car to smash...
20h ago
$390-million in unclaimed money and property
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- The NM Taxation and Revenue Department is encouraging citizens to check and see if they have any money or other abandoned property held by the state. There's $390 million worth of money, uncashed checks, safe deposit box contents, and credit balance...
21h ago
Mayor and city face lawsuit
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- The former inspector general for Albuquerque, Melissa Santistevan, has filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Tim Keller claiming she was wrongfully removed from her position. The lawsuit states Santistevan faced harassment during committee meet...
21h ago
Suspect sought for westside bank robbery
Albuquerque (KKOB)- The Albuquerque office of the FBI and the Albuquerque Police Department are asking for the public's help to identify a man wanted for a robbery of the Bank of America branch at 2601 Coors Blvd NW. On November 20, 2025, the man entered the bank and implie...
Nov 25, 2025
Otero county man arrested in murder of girlfriend
Alamogordo, NM(KKOB)- A 31-year old Otero County man is in jail without bond charged with an open count of murder for the killing of his girlfriend. Mathew Weems was arrested initially for a burglary charge, but was later charged with murder after the body of his girlfrien...
Nov 25, 2025
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Home explosion victim transferred to Phoenix burn unit
Albuquerque (KKOB)- New information regarding that home explosion on Sunday night that rocked a northeast heights neighborhood. The victim from the explosion who was initially taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital, in now at a burn unit in Phoenix, Arizona. The ho...
Nov 25, 2025
