The Legislative Finance Committee released its recommendations ahead of the beginning of the session next week. They were close to a budget the Governor released last year.

The upcoming presidential inauguration brings a mix of feelings for people in the state of New Mexico. KUNM has put together a guide of both protests and celebrations for President Donald Trump's second term.

Many in New Mexico lack adequate food, secure housing, affordable healthcare, and fair-paying jobs. But by the numbers, so gradual it’s difficult to detect, changes to state tax policy are softening the bite of poverty.

In the days leading up to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, U.S. attorneys appointed by the Biden Administration are waiting to learn if they will be forced to resign or quit. U.S. Attorney for New Mexico Alexander Uballez recently sat down with New Mexico in Focus executive producer Jeff Proctor to talk about his accomplishments during his time in office.

For the third straight year, lawmakers are trying to raise taxes on alcoholic drinks, in an attempt to reduce New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation alcohol-related death rate.

On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll explore a controversial proposed power line project through the Caja del Rio that sparked a large push to protect the area and talk to the people who recreate and use the landscape on a daily basis.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is taking outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard and all five members of the Board of Regents to court over a $1.9 million buyout payment they awarded to Shepard, who state investigators say has routinely engaged in “wasteful” and “improper” spending of taxpayer dollars.

As several fires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area, New Mexico deployed personnel and equipment to California Thursday.

With holiday pop-ups behind us, but warm Saturdays at Albuquerque’s Downtown Growers’ Market still months away, the organization is working to fill the void by bringing back its long-dormant Winter Market this weekend.

If the resolution is approved by legislators, New Mexicans will have their chance to vote on it in the next election cycle.