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Bernalillo County has vacancies across more than a dozen boards, councils, committees and commissions. It put a call out Monday, asking residents to “step up and serve the community” by filling the seats.

Longtime KUNM Music Director, Matthew Finch, died Sunday at the age of 64. His family said his death came unexpectedly from natural causes and he went peacefully, “in the arms of his family and two dogs.”

Despite a boost of energy in the Democratic Party nationally since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, far more New Mexicans registered as Republicans than Democrats last month.

An internet outage that began Thursday afternoon continues to affect New Mexico customers west of Albuquerque, including the Bernalillo County jail. Among other service disruptions, the Metropolitan Detention Center has stopped releasing people from the jail and says it won’t resume releases until service is restored.

The weekly alternative paper the Santa Fe Reporter announced Wednesday that it has a new owner. Former Albuquerque City Council President Pat Davis’ Ctrl+P Publishing purchased the outlet, adding to its bench of five other digital and print papers across the state.

New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, who previously served as the state’s health secretary before getting elected to Congress, spoke at the DNC tonight on the topic of health care.

In a ruling Monday, the New Mexico Supreme Court rejected the challenges of two defendants who said county sheriffs’ offices violated their Miranda rights. Specifically, notifying them of their right to an attorney. The Justices ruled that the way detectives phrased the warnings was sufficient.

A year after Albuquerque Public Schools released its “Emerging Stronger” strategic plan, new Superintendent Gabriella Blakey said in the first ever State of the District address that APS is now “strong.” Still, she acknowledged there’s a lot of room for improvement.

The brother of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, one of three Muslim men gunned down in Albuquerque in the summer of 2022, spoke with KUNM about suspect Muhammad Syed taking a plea deal Tuesday in the final two murder cases.

Santa Fe attorney Megan Dorsey breaks down common misunderstandings of Miranda rights in light of a recent state Supreme Court decision.