Funding

After a few weeks of traveling across the state, the New Mexico Higher Education Department heard from colleges and universities that maintaining facilities has been a challenge. The department will use a windfall of funding to ensure existing buildings receive upgrades.

This past summer, we brought you a story on U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury’s effort to obtain funding for schools under the Bureau of Indian Education which serves over 40,000 Native students across the country.Stansbury announced that she helped secure $90 million to build a new facility for the To’Hajiilee community school here in New Mexico.

In 2021, a record number of people quit their jobs, what economists are calling the Great Resignation. While COVID was certainly a factor, experts say people were already exiting their jobs at an increasing rate starting in 2009. Now New Mexico Highlands University plans to use new funding to address mass exits and burnout in northern New Mexico.

Democrat John Allen and Republican Paul Pacheco emerged victorious in their respective primary races for Bernalillo County Sheriff.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed education bills that will increase salaries of school workers, and increase benefits for teachers.These are efforts to address severe staffing shortages at schools amid burnout that has accelerated in the pandemic. However, fixing the issues will require many different solutions.

The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives is a national crisis, especially here in New Mexico, which leads the country in the…

We are halfway through the legislative session and thought it would be a great idea if Kevin McDonald, Executive Producer for New Mexico PBS stopped by…

A village of tiny homes for folks experiencing homelessness in Bernalillo County has officially nailed down a location. The Albuquerque Indian Center has…

Students and adults can get free, confidential health care at a school-based health center in Albuquerque's South Valley.But leaders at the health center…

As many as 800,000 federal employees aren’t getting paid during the partial government shutdown. And at least one local tribe is feeling those…