Soon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race.
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El Paso Matters President and CEO Bob Moore covers top stories each week. This week, the details of a proposed property tax hike, some possible solutions for trash in the Franklins, and the ongoing conversation about the brain drain.
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KC Counts talks with host and New Mexico Poet Laureate Manuel Gonzalez about the podcast and how local folks can participate in the conversation.
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Katalina Hadfield talks with KC Counts about an opportunity for individuals to connect with lawyers for free legal help.
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KRWG Public Media is covering contested races around the region ahead of the June 2nd primary. KRWG’s Susan Morée spoke with Patrick W. Snedeker, who is a Democratic candidate for Grant County Commission, district 1.
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Since 2000, more than 7 million acres of forests and wildlands have burned in New Mexico, underscoring the need for a new center designed to grow tree seedlings for reforestation.
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Pearce’s background as a Republican Party leader in New Mexico known for supporting public land leasing and industry made him a contentious pick.
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Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose.
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Indigenous leaders say that in the Trump administration's rush to build border walls, contractors are desecrating Native American sacred places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace, more than 170 years after the international boundary split the territories of dozens of tribes.
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The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice recordings of the pilots in a recent crash.
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Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they now draw adventurous visitors to rare wildlife, sacred sites and vast views.
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Some lawmakers are speaking out against closed, single-party primaries, which they see as part of a system that limits voter choice and incentivizes elected officials to prioritize party loyalty.
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The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political position regionally, while continuing to wage a brutal civil war.