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This week on New Mexico in Focus, a new report from the state attorney general's office finds Indigenous and Hispanic students are punished at Gallup McKinley County Schools far more severely than their white peers. The published findings follow an...

This week, New Mexico in Focus examines Albuquerque's fentanyl crisis, in the wake of last month's news that the federal government allowed thousands of pills to hit the city's streets. Executive Producer Jeff Proctor talks with frontline workers from...

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, Albuquerque celebrates 50 years of LGBTQ Pride. Author and community leader Dr. PJ Sedillo joins Host Nash Jones to look back at the city's first Pride parade. Later, Sedillo walks viewers through the parade's long...

This week, New Mexico in Focus hears local reaction to the Trump administration's lawsuit against Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico over their immigration enforcement policies.

Administrators, faculty, staff, students and a variety of officials from around the community celebrated the impending retirement of President Garnett S. Stokes at the Student Union Building yesterday with a series of “micro” speeches from local...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, an environmental attorney criticizes a recent decision by the state's Water Quality Control Commission to revisit how and where fracking wastewater can be used in New Mexico. Tannis Fox, a senior attorney with the...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, state Environment Secretary James Kenney visits the NMIF studio to explain new state regulations on PFAS, or “forever chemicals.”

This week on New Mexico in Focus, U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-NM, dropped by the studio before returning to Washington D.C. Host Nash Jones spoke with the congresswoman about the war in Iran and the position she and her Democratic colleagues are...

This week, New Mexico in Focus takes a deep dive into new public safety leadership at the City of Albuquerque. Police Chief Cecily Barker talks about her 20-year career with the Albuquerque Police Department and how she differs from the previous chief,...