President Joe Biden

It’s less than a week until the midterm elections, and President Joe Biden has been making the rounds countrywide to make a final plea for voters to swing blue. The President stopped in New Mexico Thursday to highlight his administration's financial aid policies and New Mexico’s historic free college program.

Last week President Joe Biden said the pandemic had ended. Yet the federal public health emergency order is good until mid-October and will likely be extended into January. For two weeks in a row all 33 New Mexico counties are pastel green on the CDC COVID Community Levels map showing low hospitalization rates from the virus across the state. Yet, only two counties, Harding and Hidalgo actually have low COVID transmission rates.

During a historically devastating fire season, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that wildland firefighters will receive a temporary pay raise and benefits like mental health services will be more readily available. Firefighters think the hike is promising, though it may not be enough to retain future firefighters in the southwest.

President Joe Biden is due to visit Santa Fe for a briefing on the state's unprecedented fire season. Homes and livelihoods have been destroyed, and there is deep resentment of the U.S. Forest Service's role in starting the fire. Those affected by the fire are also worried the federal response isn't robust or fast enough

The Archbishop of Santa Fe released a new pastoral letter Tuesday, Jan 11, calling for New Mexico’s scientific laboratories and the U.S. government to disarm nuclear weapons and funding for similar projects.

During Albuquerque’s summer season, some neighborhoods clock almost 17 degrees hotter than others. That’s according to a report released by CAPA strategies last month.From planting trees in lower-income neighborhoods to changing the ways we build and design our streets, KUNM’s Bryce Dix reports on ways our city can cool down these neighborhoods in the face of climate change.

Low vaccination rates make many counties in the Mountain West especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 delta variant right now, according to data from the public health research group PHICOR. That’s prompting tough new action from some state and federal officials.

The Biden administration will restore the White House Council on Native American Affairs, an interagency initiative that coordinates federal services and…