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

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

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 ...

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

Dashcam footage from the night of Elijah Hadley’s death shows him tossing his BB gun into the brush. Courtesy of Tyson Logan Criminal Justice When a call for help ends in gunfire ...

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 ...

Raised in Taos, Mariah Blake is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter and the author of an important new book called “They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals.

Fossil fuel revenues bankroll education spending in this state, but schools exposed to industry pollution face environmental risks that can affect children’s health and performance.

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 ...

A secretive group called New Mexico Safety Over Profit is working hard behind the scenes to derail medical malpractice reform in the state legislature ...