Klarissa Peña

Early voting begins on Monday December 1, 2025 for the runoff elections where Albuquerque voters will decide the city’s next Mayor and City Council positions for Districts 1 and 3.

Albuquerque voters will return to the polls next month for the runoff election to decide who will be the next mayor and who will be representing City Council districts 1 and 3. On December 9th, voters will decide the results of three races in which none of the candidates received the simple majority necessary to win office.

Eight years after the murders of two Indigenous men at a lot on Albuquerque’s westside, the city appears poised to make something meaningful of the site. Bella Davis (Yurok Tribe), Indigenous affairs reporter with New Mexico In Depth, spoke with KUNM about her reporting on what happened there and what’s to come.

Throughout U.S. history, industries that dump toxic waste into the air, water and soil get put in neighborhoods where low-income people of color live.…

Public transit ridership has been declining all around the United States for the last five years or so—even in the biggest cities. Experts say one big…

Let’s Talk New Mexico 1/18 8a: Call now 277-KUNM or 277-5866. Albuquerque’s City Council passed the Pedestrian Safety Ordinance late last year, which…