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 ...

Joshua Bowling, Searchlight's criminal justice reporter, spent nearly six years covering local government, the environment and other issues at the Arizona Republic. His accountability reporting ...

On the Mescalero Apache Reservation, four days of dancing mark the passage into womanhood, testing a girl’s endurance — and enveloping her in tradition.

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 ...

Anger toward the Forest Service has been smoldering for a century. Raging wildfires brought it roaring to life.

During the decades that he’s lived in his home southwest of Santa Fe, Jose Villegas was oblivious to the toxic chemicals that were seeping through the aquifer, slowly spreading under his house in the ...

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

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far.

The Catholic church in New Mexico paid millions to settle sex abuse cases, but it won’t publicly list many of the priests who were accused.