New Mexico

Dawn Federico of the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, talks about how she came to own the iconic motel, and what goes into maintaining a historic buidling.

Tax revenues are coming in higher than expected in states like Alaska and New Mexico as oil prices remain elevated.

The area around Albuquerque has long been a hub for scientific and technological development. This appears to be true for AI, too, but the full picture of this regional economy is much more complex.

The change could help stabilize New Mexico’s childcare market, but it also comes with adjustment costs for some providers.

Even middle-class families can be severely cost-burdened by child care.

Farmers have relied on these irrigation ditches for generations. Now, climate change threatens to turn them into relics of the past.

“I'm trying to make this as 2025 as possible, but it is definitely sometimes feeling a little 1800s over here,” said Laurel Santos about her off-grid house in Tres Piedras, NM.

The GOP’s plan to put a for-sale sign on millions of acres of federal land out West was just nixed. But the idea has been kicking around Washington for years.

In most of the country, sending a kid to day care costs more than sending one to a public university. But in New Mexico, most families can pay nothing at all. 

In New Mexico, a family of four making up to $124,000 a year can now send their kids to day care for free. That’s twice the state’s median income.