Roz Brown

New Mexico has laws to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation system but analysis shows it only goes so far.

Temperatures in New Mexico this summer ran more than 5 degrees hotter than the state's 20th-century average and climate activists in Washington are demanding Congress devote more time to the climate crisis facing all 50 states.

Some 90,000 New Mexicans enrolled in Medicaid could soon have a harder time qualifying and the state's health agency is proactively trying to reach them.

Wildfires have become more frequent and ferocious in recent decades and a new report highlighted a bipartisan effort to find practical solutions.

Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research showed New Mexico's Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box.

Food safety is emerging as a potential political issue ahead of the midterms following multiple outbreaks of foodborne illnesses and recalls of imported meat.

Book bans are not making daily headlines in New Mexico but those tracking them said there were nearly 12,000 such moves in public schools nationwide during the previous school year, the largest number in a single year.

The Native American Rights Fund report used federal data from the past three general elections to show rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population.

Research by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis showed the number of wells likely to become orphans is growing faster than the state can plug and remediate its existing inventory.

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