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Overview
The Albuquerque Journal is New Mexico's largest newspaper and the main paper for the Roundhouse and the Bernalillo County courts, and the Santa Fe New Mexican, founded in 1849, is which calls itself the oldest newspaper in the West and covers the capital. The Las Cruces Sun-News, the Farmington Daily Times, the Roswell Daily Record, the Carlsbad Current-Argus, the Alamogordo Daily News, the Deming Headlight, the Silver City Daily Press, the Los Alamos Daily Post and the Taos News cover their regions, and Source New Mexico and Searchlight New Mexico cover state government online.
New Mexico newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 33 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the free New Mexico Courts case lookup.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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New Mexico Newspapers
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Major New Mexico newspapers and what they cover
The Journal covers Albuquerque, state government, the New Mexico Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1880s onward in the digital archives. The New Mexican covers Santa Fe, the legislature and northern New Mexico, the Sun-News covers Las Cruces and the border, the Daily Times covers Farmington and the Navajo Nation's eastern side, and the Daily Record covers Roswell and the southeast oil patch. County weeklies such as the Quay County Sun, the Sierra County Sentinel and the Union County Leader carry county commission minutes, sheriff's reports and district court notices.
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Historic New Mexico newspapers online
The New Mexico Digital Newspapers collection at the University of New Mexico Libraries offers free digitized New Mexico newspapers, including Spanish language titles, and New Mexico papers from the territorial era onward appear in Chronicling America. The New Mexico State Library in Santa Fe holds newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Albuquerque Public Library provides free access to the Journal archive with a library card. The New Mexico State Records Center and Archives holds early titles.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in New Mexico
New Mexico law requires foreclosure sale notices, notices to creditors in probate, name changes, tax sales and county and municipal notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the New Mexico Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Most New Mexico dailies and weeklies run obituaries, and the Albuquerque Public Library keeps an obituary index for the Journal. Court coverage pairs with the free New Mexico Courts case lookup, which covers district, magistrate and metropolitan courts.
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Straight answers
New Mexico Newspaper Directory, questions
What is New Mexico's largest newspaper?
The Albuquerque Journal, followed by the Santa Fe New Mexican, which calls itself the oldest newspaper in the West, the Las Cruces Sun-News, the Farmington Daily Times and the Roswell Daily Record.
Where are historic New Mexico newspapers online?
Chronicling America carries New Mexico titles from the territorial era onward, including Spanish language papers, and the University of New Mexico's digital collection and the State Library add more.
Where are New Mexico foreclosure notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the New Mexico Press Association's statewide public notice search.