Westside Albuquerque

By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]

By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced his nominees Dec. 19 to the United States Service Academies.  A nomination is required to attend the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; the U.S. Coast Guard Academy does not require a nomination. According to […]

By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]

By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]