A new analysis finds that the average renter household now needs 16 years to save for a down payment and closing costs. Rising rents and other costs have consumed a growing share of household budgets.
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Kurt Johnson, General Manager and Executive Editor of the Las Cruces Bulletin, highlights local sports stories.
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Nick Seibel, editor and publisher of the Silver City Daily Press, covers top stories each week in the Silver City Report. This week, he talks about two new cases of New World screwworm in Grant County, ethics issues at Cobre Consolidated School District and more.
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The Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education voted to write an amended lease with Alma d’Arte after the charter school defaulted on its current one.
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No injuries were reported after a BNSF train derailed Tuesday morning in Doña Ana County.
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KRWG Public Media is covering the New Mexico Secretary of State race. Election day is November 3rd. Democratic candidate Amanda Lopez Askin spoke with Scott Brocato.
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Even with the Immigrant Safety Act passed earlier this year, New Mexico is one of five states with the highest local jail arrest rate.
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While many conservation and wildlife organizations support the Fix Our Forests Act, others are skeptical, fearing it will weaken environmental safeguards and threaten long-term ecosystem health.
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Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to The Associated Press that “border wall panel installation is underway” in a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County in west Texas known as Big Bend 1.
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Elsie Begay, her granddaughter Lucy Allison Mike, and Begay’s best friend Dora Franklin died in the flood Tuesday near Newcomb, New Mexico, a community of about 400 people, family members said Friday.
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Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences.
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The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation.
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"There's an understandable pull in my industry to make things ... super safe, super familiar," Gilpin says. She wants to go the other way. Gilpin currently stars in the noir drama The Lowdown.
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In '72, filmmaker William Greaves hosted a cocktail party for the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance. Our critic says the footage is "like watching a 50th college reunion set on Mt. Olympus."
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We take y'all to church on this episode. We presents three artists backed by choirs behind the Desk. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.