Daily Update
Shaun Griswold
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Source NM
Cooler weather is helping nearly 3,000 firefighters in New Mexico prevent the nation's largest active wildfire from growing. Fire officials said last night that they took advantage of better conditions to expand contingency firebreaks northeast of Santa Fe ahead of a return to hotter, windier weather by the end of the week.
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The KUNM News Department is continuing to update these lists with resources related to the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak
Local News
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Alice Fordham/Some fear the fire will catalyze a change in a way of life that has endured for centuries, and in which beloved and unique traditions are embedded. -
Trevor Duke/Longtime Albuquerque-based composer Raven Chacon, who is Navajo, won a Pulitzer Prize for music, the first Indigenous person to win that award. He speaks with Shaun Griswold from Source New Mexico.
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Diego Berruecos Gatopardo/Courtesy of the authorThe author is one of many who will appear at the Santa Fe Literary Festival this weekend
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JESHOOTS/PexelsAs the efforts of thousands of firefighters battling flames across New Mexico are complicated by fierce winds and drought, officials say drones are another factor slowing their work.
Let's Talk New Mexico
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New Mexico is in the middle of one of its most devastating fire seasons to date –– with the largest wildfire in the state’s history scorching hundreds of thousands of acres of land. This week on Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll discuss year-round forest management practices designed to stop fires like these from happening, a controversial planned burn that became the Hermits Peak Fire, and the evolving role of firefighting in the U.S.
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Lightning sparked a few new small fires in the drought-stricken Southwest Monday but the thunderstorms brought welcome rain to the monster blaze that's been churning for a month in New Mexico and is now the state's largest in recorded history. -
A monster blaze churning in northern New Mexico for more than a month has blackened enough acreage to earn a place in the state's record books.
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A new Interior Department report on the legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans underscores how closely the U.S. government collaborated with churches to Christianize them as part of a project to sever them from their culture, their identities and ultimately their land.
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The New Mexico Human Services Department announced New Mexicans receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP food benefits will continue to receive the maximum amount for their household size during the month of May, continuing until the announcement of the end of the public health emergency in mid summer.
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Mike Mozart/Flickr via CC BY 2.0Gas prices have been on the rise nationwide, the result of several factors, including the effects of the pandemic, supply chain issues and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Facebook/“It's taken far too long for some of these conversations to happen. But they are happening. And institutions are adapting to the changing demographics of those who are serving.”
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