Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says "excavation work" will begin in the next two weeks, without approval from a key federal body. Veterans who sued over the arch want a judge to intervene before then.
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KC Counts looks back at the week's top stories and interviews from KRWG Public Media.
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New Mexico Museum of Space History celebrates its 50-year history in Alamogordo with an event on October 3 and an exhibit to tell the story of the museum opened earlier this month.
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Bob Moore, El Paso Matters President and CEO, covers top stories each week.
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On the next episode of “Music Spotlight,” airing Saturday night at 10 on KRWG-TV, host Scott Brocato’s guest will be Las Cruces-based singer-songwriter Buddy Akin. Here’s a preview of their conversation.
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Local authors Caroline Starr Rose and Philip Connors were nominated for the National Book Festival's Great Reads from Great Places to represent New Mexico at the festival in Washington DC. They talk about it with Susan Morée.
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As federal cuts to food assistance programs trickle down to New Mexico communities, volunteers are seeing the strain.
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Under the Bureau of Reclamation's plan, California, Nevada and Arizona will collectively reduce water use by 1.25 million acre-feet annually during a 2-year period, with the possibility of larger cuts depending on conditions.
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Most states have restricted the movement of animals from infested areas of Texas, leading to crowded conditions in state shelters that rely on adoptions to other regions of the country.
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The filing comes as no surprise as the Trump administration first announced its intention to get rid of the rule during a meeting last summer in New Mexico.
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The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
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A report from Labor Department investigators found former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated her own department's policy prohibiting harassment. She resigned in April.
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The new effort appears to be another tactic in a broader Trump administration strategy to short-circuit immigrants' already limited due process options in order to speed deportations.
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That's the grim assessment from the ground in the wake of the catastrophic flooding, which damaged or destroyed 7 health facilities, interrupted routine care and is affecting mental health.
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The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice.