KUNM News Update
New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Patrick Allen is leaving after less than two years on the job.
Local News
Before the pandemic, the site was getting more than 100,000 visitors a year, disrupting Pueblo life. After the monument closed for the pandemic, Cochiti Pueblo and the BLM sat down to negotiate a new way for visitors to come. More than four years later, a trial period begins.
Let's Talk New Mexico
On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico, we'll discuss if work-life balance is possible in health care and how the well-being of physicians impacts patient care.
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President Joe Biden’s last-ditch effort to adequately fund the country’s natural disaster response includes an additional $1.5 billion for victims of New Mexico’s largest-ever wildfire, according to a letter his office released Monday.
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For years ozone levels monitored by the New Mexico Environment Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Permian Basin have exceeded national standards. EPA told state an ozone nonattainment zone was imminent for the Permian Basin, which would have brought over oversight of oilfield operations. Now that may not happen with the election of Donald Trump.
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Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman says he wants New Mexico to focus much of its deterrence efforts on young people.
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NM Health, formerly the Department of Health, announced late last month whooping cough has struck twice as many people in New Mexico than it did last year at the same time, prompting NMHealth to issue a warning. It’s even worse at a national level, with five times as many cases across the country.
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As federal policy shifts more to the right with the election of Donald J. Trump, conservationists are increasingly worried how the incoming administration’s vows to cut climate spending and ramp up oil and gas drilling will change New Mexico’s landscape.
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