Even in blue New Mexico, state representative Angelica Rubio is seen as idealistic — but her strong stances have also helped ...

Unanimously, the newly appointed regents at Western New Mexico University have approved a plan to strike down former ...

Following passage of the Radiation and Exposure and Compensation Act expansion, which includes post-1971 miners for the first time, Searchlight spoke with three tribal members whose lives were changed ...

Searchlight connected with three abruptly terminated federal employees, who offer deep insights on the meaning of the purge that just happened. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news ...

To get a sense of how the next wave of compensation will really work, Searchlight spoke with Julian Duque, communications ...

Video obtained by the Albuquerque Journal in 2014 captured the moment police leveled their weapons at James Boyd, a 38-year-old homeless man camping in the Sandia Foothills. Courtesy Albuquerque ...

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of ...

For years, the public had no clear picture of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium footprint. Had the ubiquitous plutonium at LANL infiltrated the soil? The water? Had it migrated outside the ...

Nuclear LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?

The décor inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center (YSC) is more in line with the children’s wing of your local library than a jail built for kids. The walls and furniture are painted in ...

A Rio Grande photo expedition shows the beauty and perils along 470 miles of New Mexico’s prize waterway.