Local News
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez won the district by around 1,000 votes in 2022. Will he prevail in a rematch with Republican Yvette Herrell?
KUNM News Update
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has ended an emergency public health order that suspended the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in New Mexico's largest metro area.
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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Ken Brennan, a Republican, is challenging incumbent Matthew McQueen, a Democrat, in House District 50
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New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney told a panel of lawmakers Tuesday that banning nonessential PFAS is a priority for his department.
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While inflation is finally coming down, many are still hurting in New Mexico. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and his Republican challenger in this year’s election, Nella Domenici, have differing proposals to provide some relief.
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New Mexico has become a safe haven for abortion access since federal protections for the procedure were overturned and many surrounding states have implemented bans. The issue has taken center stage in the race for the state’s next U.S. senator between two-term Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich and his Republican challenger, Nella Domenici.
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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.
- The DOJ charged a former Indian intelligence official in a foiled assassination plot
- Phoenix police allegedly beat, repeatedly tased deaf Black man who has cerebral palsy
- Prada and Axiom Space reveal modernized NASA spacesuits for the 2026 moon landing
- Fentanyl deaths in the U.S. have dropped faster than expected, CDC says