Alice Fordham
ReporterAlice Fordham joined the news team in 2022 after a career as an international correspondent, reporting for NPR from the Middle East and later Latin America and Europe. She also worked as a podcast producer for The Economist among other outlets, and tries to meld a love of sound and storytelling with solid reporting on the community. She grew up in the U.K. and has a small jar of Marmite in her kitchen for emergencies.
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The Environment Department says power outages that result in drinking water sitting in pipes and exposure to extreme heat can result in contamination from E. coli and other bacteria. -
The Hermits Peak fire began as a prescribed burn. Many officials, and evacuees at risk of losing everything, say the burn should never have happened. An ecologist says despite the risks prescribed burns are essential.
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The biggest wildfire in the U.S. has been threatening homes and people in New Mexico for more than a month now. Some are facing serious hardships.
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The Auditor's office said in a statement that the City of Santa Fe had failed to take years of concerns over things like the late filing of financial reports seriously.
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In agriculture, especially growing fruit and vegetables, margins have long been tight, with labor costs and drought causing headaches. But now supply chain issues and the war in Eastern Europe have driven fuel and fertilizer prices way up. And farmers are having to make tough choices.
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New Mexico is the latest of dozens of states to offer free college tuition in some form. The benefits are generous, but only last for a year. (This story first aired on ATC on March 21, 2022.)
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But the investigation is still incomplete, pending firearm and ballistic reports and the autopsy of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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The deadline has been extended to May 15 for the three-year position which is open to poets of all genres
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The pandemic has challenged schools and universities in ways big and small. In medical schools, including at UNM, the anatomy labs are struggling with a lack of bodies for dissection.
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Hundreds of firefighters have worked to contain a fire that tore through a canyon in a residential area. But a village with about 8,000 permanent residents lost an elderly couple and more than 200 homes. And it must grapple with the possibility that a changed climate could make fires like this more common
