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Ready, Set, Runoff!

By Jeff Proctor | December 5, 2025

This week marks our last show before Albuquerque learns who the mayor will be in 2026 and beyond. Election Day…

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NM utility commissioner floats receivership for troubled water system

By Joshua Bowling | December 5, 2025

Comments come as the Timberon Water and Sanitation District loses as much as 85% of its water to leaky pipes…

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Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main | December 2, 2025

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound…

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Revisiting ‘Indigenously Positive’

By Jeff Proctor | November 28, 2025

One day last fall, I was lunching with my friend and former colleague, Bella Davis (Yurok), when she mentioned an…

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NMiF Will Be Back Next Week

By Jeff Proctor | November 21, 2025

Greetings and pre-holiday salutations, everyone. I’m just here to make sure you don’t tune in for a new episode of…

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Future drought will likely change large migratory bird patterns to New Mexico

By Bryce Dix, KUNM News | November 21, 2025

by Bryce Dix, KUNM News This story was originally published at KUNM, a NMPBS partner. If you live in the…

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New Mexico research universities facing $95 million in lost federal funding

By Leah Romero, Source New Mexico | November 17, 2025

by Leah Romero, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New Mexico, a NMPBS partner. The Trump…

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Forced sterilization of Indigenous women would be investigated under proposed legislation

By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM News | November 14, 2025

by Jeanette DeDios, KUNM News This story was originally published at KUNM, a NMPBS partner. For decades starting in 1907…

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Tug-Of-War Over Feeding Americans in Need Ends, Though New Mexico Was Ready if It Hadn’t

By Nash Jones | November 14, 2025

The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history has come to an end, and with it a tug-of-war over the…

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Yazzie/Martinez plan still needs work, education advocates say

By Bella Davis | November 11, 2025

by Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth This story was originally published at New Mexico In Depth, a NMPBS partner.…

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Two mayoral candidates speak at separate campaign events; one gestures with a microphone, the other stands behind a podium with supporters and a campaign sign.

Forecasting December’s Election Encore

By Lou DiVizio | November 7, 2025

Election Day is romanticized in newsrooms across the country: the privilege to cover the events of a day where individuals…

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Into the Woods with NM Search and Rescue

By Jeff Proctor | October 31, 2025

This week’s show once again finds us outside the NMiF studio and — in one segment, way outside the studio.…

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