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Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Alamogordo News managing editor Spencer Fordin covers top stories from Alamogordo and Otero County each week. -
USDA secretary announced that the Santa Teresa Cattle Crossing will reopen this week. Protocols to protect livestock from New World screwworm will be implemented. -
A horse in Grant County has tested positive for New World screwworm. -
A documentary called ‘Journeys’ which examines the use of psilocibin use in therapy was shown in Las Cruces late last week. KRWG’s Noah Raess spoke with director and producer Christopher Cramer to learn more about the film. -
The Commons in Silver City has supported Grant County with food security initiatives since 2004 .Scott Brocato talks with executive director Ben Rasmussen.
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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. -
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. -
Mount Taylor is sacred to the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the pueblos of Laguna, Acoma and Zuni. -
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during the 2016 election, used Facebook data sold to a political consulting firm, during opening statements in a trial over the platform's data protections.
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The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught. Then he rebranded it as a military complex. Experts say that only raises more legal and logistical questions. -
This year's shortlist is made up of former Booker winners and debut authors, with tales spanning a wide range of genres, from historical fiction to campus novel to dystopian fiction. -
Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life. -
As the classical concert season ramps up, two of America's finest orchestras will soon be led by new conductors when Daniel Harding takes over in Los Angeles and Elim Chan leads in San Francisco. -
The Islamic State group-inspired attacks were among the deadliest in Sri Lanka's history, killing 42 foreigners.
These copper vests are helping injured penguins heal faster
Press pool declines to cover Trump in protest of his ban on news outlets
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump's media attacks
Trump's attacks on free press echo rhetoric used by autocrats, Jodie Ginsberg says
How abortion drug restrictions make it harder to treat other conditions
