A corrections officer at a New Mexico county jail is accused of orchestrating attacks in the shower on two inmates who suffer from mental illness. Plus, President Joe Biden did something Friday that no other sitting U.S. president has: He apologized for the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children endured in boarding schools at the hands of the federal government.

President Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the "sin" of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a "blot on American history" in his first presidential visit to a tribal nation.

Federal officials went door to door in Roswell on Thursday to assess the damage from historic flooding last weekend in the southeastern New Mexico community.

In southwest New Mexico, the seat for House District 39 is heating up between incumbent Republican Luis Terrazas from Grant County and Democratic challenger Gabby Begay who is Navajo from Silver City.

New Mexico’s house district 38 is among a handful of key swing districts being closely watched by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Now, the race between incumbent Democrat Tara Jaramillo and Republican challenger Rebecca Dow to hold that seat is quickly proving to be one of the most closely watched, and hotly contested in the state.