Dennis Carroll

New Mexico’s Rocky Mountain Youth Corps receives a $1.3 million U.S. grant for a new workforce training center in Taos. Ben Thomas, the corps executive director, discusses the new possibilities.

Students and teachers at Santa Fe’s Capital High School begin a campaign to reduce fears and confusion over Covid-19 vaccines among Southside residents. 

Navajo Nation President Jonathon Nez shares concerns over slow pace of remediation of hundreds of uranium mining sites.

Advocates for nuclear radiation victims from several Western states joined forces last week at a U.S. House hearing. KSFR’s Dennis Carroll reports.

Supreme Court Justice David Thomson brings the courtroom to the classroom, offering real-life lessons in the American judicial system.  KSFR’s  Dennis Carroll reports.

City Councilor Roman Abeyta talks with KSFR’s Dennis Carroll about the benefits of the facility not only to teenagers but to the entire community as well.

Two top Covid-19 scientists at the University of New Mexico warn it ain’t over yet. KSFR’s Dennis Carroll reports.

Legislation to require New Mexico high schools to offer mandatory financial literacy classes is making its way through the state Legislature. KSFR's Dennis Carroll reports. 

As the Covid-19 virus rampages through New Mexico, students and teachers in hard-hit south Santa Fe neighborhoods have launched a determined effort to reduce the spread of the virus among south-side Santa Fe families.

KSFR's Dennis Carroll talked with organizers of the awareness and food distribution projects.

In the last in a series of stories marking the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test this year, reporter Dennis Carroll looks at the first study of possible health effects on New Mexicans caused by that first nuclear detonation.

In a bit of irony, Carroll shares criticism of the National Cancer Institute report from advocates who were alive on that mid-summer day in 1945--and their descendants. And, he also reports on efforts to ensure that Trinity’s downwinders no longer remain left-out of the history books.

This year is the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test in southern New Mexico. It was the first detonation of a nuclear device –the unleashing of the unholy might of the tiny atom.

In the second in a series of reports marking the anniversary, reporter Dennis Carroll talks with two nuclear scientists intimately familiar with the test – now considered by some to be the world’s first nuclear accident whose first victims may have been dozens of infants. Next in the series: Downwinders’ quest for redress and justice, and possibly revisionist history in the making.

This year is the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test in southern New Mexico. It was the first detonation of a nuclear device—the unleashing of the unholy might of the tiny atom.

To mark the occasion, reporter Dennis Carroll, in an ongoing series of reports, examines what we have learned about the changing attitudes, the shroud of secrecy, claims of bad science and the apparent utter disregard for Trinity’s neighbors that now surround the test and its aftermath decades later.

The Santa Fe business community is slowly coming back to life as businesses reopen under state-mandated restrictions and guidelines designed to limit the spread of the novel corona virus.

Has it been a smooth ride or have there been major bumps along the long road back to normal? To find out, KSFR’S Dennis Carroll reached out to three owners of local retail outlets recently given the green light to open.

Currently nine states and the District of Colombia have legalized recreational use of marijuana for adults over 21. Supporters of such a measure in New Mexico now point to a new public opinion survey they say shows New Mexicans’ growing support for legal cannabis here. KSFR’s Dennis Carroll prepared this report.

The owner of Santa Fe’s Top Dog Resort kennel, Sharon Newcomb, has had a love affair with dogs for as long she can remember: Big dogs, little dogs, mongrels and purebreds.  Newcomb has loved and cared for them all.  

Now she has been chosen as one of only seven judges for the group finals in next February's prestigious Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Newcomb talks about the how’s and whys of being selected with KSFR’s Dennis Carroll, and offers a few behind the scene scoops.