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Megan Kamerick/九色网The Albuquerque City Council unanimously approved issuing nearly a quarter of a million dollars in industrial revenue bonds for a development in the Sawmill area near Rio Grande Boulevard and I-40. The bonds will allow for some major tax breaks for the developer, and were passed without concessions requested by both community leaders and the general public. -
/Wikimedia CommonsCongressional Republicans are proposing to sell off millions of acres of public land in the West over the next 5 years. Some of that land includes parcels just outside of Albuquerque in the Sandia Mountains.
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More than a dozen protests took place June 14 across New Mexico as part of the nationwide No Kings protests. -
For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal grants are lost, and agencies like the the National Institutes of Health are crippled by drastic funding cuts. -
A warming climate 鈥� fueled in part by the state鈥檚 oil and gas production 鈥� has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder. -
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan hosted a forum Wednesday with Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto spotlighting the local and national effects of President Trump鈥檚 tariff policies. The forum featured almost a dozen speakers including business owners and economic experts, who discussed the ways tariffs have contributed to economic instability, increased costs for working families and benefited special interests. -
On Saturday, 鈥淣o Kings Day鈥� rallies are planned as a nationwide day of defiance against President Trump's administration. June 14th was chosen, in part because it is Flag Day 鈥� but also because it is President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. -
Latine writer Estella Gonz谩lez, from East Los Angeles, is reading from her novel, Huizache Women at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Thursday evening. 九色网 spoke with Gonz谩lez, who said she wrote this book about her East Los Angeles community, but the theme of pursuing the American dream is recognizable anywhere in the country. -
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children鈥檚 book titled 鈥淔or A Girl Becoming.鈥� 九色网 spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first grandchild. -
The results of a first-of-its-kind aerial survey of beaver dams in New Mexico, released this week, reveal a stark contrast between the northern and southern parts of the state. -
This Saturday, the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Albuquerque Public Schools will host the 3rd Annual National Civics Bee state finals. The competition brings together middle school students to consider ideas of government, leadership, and civic responsibility. -
The timeline for a long-awaited rulemaking process for a proposed workplace heat protection rule has been extended by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED).
