Local efforts underway aim to deter drunk driving in New Mexico
307 Views This week, Jonny Coker reports on how local organizations, law enforcement, and legislators are working to curb drunk driving in New Mexico. Also, on this week’s Newsmakers, New Mexico’s State Climatologist Dr. David Dubois talks with KC Counts about growing climate challenges facing southern New Mexico and the region. Catch up on recent […]
Dr. Paul Bosland, director of NMSU’s Chile Pepper Institute, gives a tour of its chile garden
243 Views On a sunny morning in the Chile Pepper Institute Teaching Garden at NMSU filled with a light fragrant smell of chile, Dr. Paul Bosland, NMSU’s Professor of Horticulture Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Chile Pepper Institute, is giving me a tour of the chile garden. He shares what started him on the […]
Medical flight team works to save lives across borderland
238 Views Native 31 is a medical aircraft and flight crew located at the Las Cruces International Airport. The crew is part of the Air Methods company. On a daily basis, the team flies across the borderland to aid and stabilize high-risk medical patients who may not survive ambulance transports and fly them to local […]
Las Cruces rolls out city’s first publicly funded basic income program
282 Views Las Cruces’s first publicly funded guaranteed basic income program is in the works. The city-approved pilot project will allocate federal funds and provide monthly payments for a year and a half to qualifying low-income individuals, with the goal of evaluating recipient outcomes. This comes after some in the community took part in a […]
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument provides boost to local economy, study finds
265 Views A newly released study shows that the designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks as a national monument has driven economic development over the past decade in Southern New Mexico.
An El Paso food bank and La Mesa, NM mushroom farm offer solutions to food desert issue in the Borderland
321 Views At El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, the city’s only food bank, they currently serve 150,000 food insecure people in the city. The need to improve food equity in a region where many people face limited access to healthy, nutritious food, inspired Patsy Stallworth to open Desert Spoon Food Hub in El Paso eight years […]
Shaky Ground: Exploring seismic activity in the Permian Basin
302 Views On the program, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson passed away on September 1st. Commentator Walt Rubel shares his thoughts on covering the Richardson Administration. Also, we discuss an increase of seismicity in the Permian Basin, what’s causing it, and what’s being done to stop it. Jonny Coker talks with Dr. Katie Smye, […]
A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier that’s used to deter migrants between US and Mexico
264 Views AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas must move a large floating barrier that Gov. Greg Abbott placed on the river between the U.S. and Mexico this summer as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Las Cruces Mayor weighs in on the legacy of Bill Richardson
251 Views After the Richardson Center for Global Engagement announced his passing, the former governor of New Mexico received widespread tributes, including a statement from President Joe Biden. Mayor of Las Cruces Ken Miyagishima said that Richardson’s influence went far beyond the state.
New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on local abortion-ban ordinances
341 Views SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding a request to strike down recent abortion-ban ordinances in several cities and counties. The high court on Tuesday announced it will hear arguments in December and agreed to consider legal briefings filed by an array of advocacy groups.
