Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared a state of emergency in New Mexico's largest city, saying that a significant increase in crime in Albuquerque warrants the help of the New Mexico National Guard.

A fire that damaged the entryway to the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque is being investigated as arson.

Federal authorities are investigating an early morning fire that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

New Mexico’s largest city is blanketed with a network of cameras, license plate readers and special listening devices that hone in on the sound of gunfire.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of Albuquerque in an effort to stop officials in the state’s largest city from destroying homeless encampments and jailing and fining people who are living on the street.

(Adolphe Pierre-Louis/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Police in Albuquerque were being criticized Tuesday for not stepping in sooner as a protest over a statue of a Spanish conquistador erupted in violence, leaving one man hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Baca was once a candidate for the Albuquerque City Council and is the son of a former Bernalillo County sheriff. Mayor Tim Keller said during a news conference that Baca appeared to be “agitating at the protest well before this shooting took place." Keller said the investigation was being turned over to New Mexico State Police and the tactics used by police would be reviewed. Rio Arriba County officials removed it to safeguard it from possible damage and to avoid civil unrest ahead of a scheduled protest.