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This week, New Mexico in Focus (NMIF) heads to Ruidoso, just days after deadly flooding hit the area. Reporter Cailley Chella visited the village last week and found residents, including the mayor, watching the clock and waiting for the feds to step in...

This week, New Mexico in Focus discusses President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill and digs into a few key changes coming to our state. Tina Cordova, the president and co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders, has advocated for decades...

This week, New Mexico in Focus breaks down a handful of new state laws. For years, reporters Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico and Taylor Velazquez of KUNM News have documented the shortcomings and failures of the New Mexico Children, Youth and...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Indigenously Positive takes the spotlight with stories and perspectives from Native people and communities across the state. The collaboration between NMPBS and nonprofit news organization New Mexico In Depth follows...

This week, New Mexico in Focus sits down with Leon Howard, the new executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico to discuss his priorities as he takes the helm of the local chapter of the national civil rights organization. Plus, Howard weighs in on a few...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, questions remain for Santa Fe's Institute of the American Indian Arts (IAIA) as the school's federal funding is threatened to be cut. Robert Martin, president of the institute, gave Senior Producer Lou Divizio his...

This week, New Mexico in Focus digs into this year's ongoing fire season. In 2022, the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burned more than 340,000 acres of spruce, fir and ponderosa pine. Today, recovery for the forest in the burn scar remains a work in...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores the future for the Albuquerque Police Department, now that an 11-year, federally mandated reform effort has ended. Police Chief Harold Medina strikes a reassuring tone, telling NMiF host Nash Jones: “We’re not...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores what the end of federal oversight at the Albuquerque Police Department means for the city. On April 11, 2011, two plainclothes detectives killed 27-year-old Christopher Torres, shooting him three times in the back...

This week, New Mexico in Focus turns its attention to federal cuts made to AmeriCorps, the government agency that's trained generations of Americans to help others. Until recently, AmeriCorps employed thousands to help others statewide — from Taos to...