KUNM News Update
Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west of El Paso, Texas.
Local News
The public won’t be allowed to make comments at a state-run meeting this week about a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
University Showcase
Photographer Rachel Cox went through infertility and IVF and uses images of her own experience to try and normalize IVF – and to empower those experiencing infertility. The show "Notes On Care" is at the UNM Art Museum.
Let's Talk New Mexico
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 should have given Native Americans the right to vote, but in New Mexico and other states it took decades more to materialize, and some of the same challenges to Natives voting are still present today. On the next Let's Talk New Mexico we'll discuss barriers to Natives voting and the political power their votes represent.
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As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and acknowledge the ongoing challenges they face, many will do so with a focus on the election.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has committed to cleaning up seven uranium mining sites east of Gallup.
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More that 730 people so far have registered to vote under the new voting provisions concerning felony convictions, according to the New Mexico secretary of state's office.
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The race for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District is not close, but both candidates make their cases forcefully.
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With AI tools more readily available than ever before, the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office has been working to head off election disinformation that may be hard to spot. It hasn't seen any so far this season.
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