New Mexico will funnel millions of dollars into its universal free child care program over the next five years as it becomes the first state to tackle such an initiative.

The Federal Communications Commission estimates that 93% of U.S. residents have access to high speed internet. But that could be overstated. According to a new report by the Urban Institute, rural and Native American communities continue to face barriers to broadband access.

This past weekend brought record temperatures for the cities of Albuquerque, Roswell, Socorro, and most of southwest New Mexico. The unseasonably warm weather broke the previous daily record by five degrees.

Hours after the U.S. and Israel launched a major attack against Iran, protestors gathered Saturday afternoon near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Friday four new cases of measles have been identified in detention facilities in southern New Mexico. Officials said the cases were brought into the facilities by inmates who transferred in from another state.

On Thursday’s episode of Let’s Talk New Mexico, journalists joined KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios to review what happened in the recent legislation session. Among the most notable bills to fail was the Clear Horizons Act. Jerry Redfern, a reporter with Capital & Main who covers the oil and gas industry, said the idea of the bill was to codify 2019 goals set by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to reduce greenhouse gas levels across the state.

Plaintiffs in the long-running Yazzie/Martinez case told a state judge the Public Education Department should throw out its court-ordered plan for remedying inequities in how the majority of public school students in New Mexico are educated.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized a highly unusual permit allowing a Republican Catron County Commissioner to kill a federally protected Mexican gray wolf.

The 68 Navajo students at Lybrook bring their district hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding each year, — $381,000 in fiscal year 2025 — money meant to help Indigenous students. Families and school staff believe the money received for Lybrook students is instead going to other schools in the district, whose student populations are almost entirely non-Native.

As climate change makes wildfires more frequent, researchers from here at the University of New Mexico say the smoke — which can drift for thousands of miles — is linked to worse mental health. The new study found a week after exposure to wildlife smoke participants’ mental health scores were at their lowest, but after three weeks scores were close to normal.