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 ...

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.

For nearly two weeks, Western New Mexico University’s website and digital systems have been held hostage by what officials in internal emails have called the efforts of a “foreign hacking group.” The ...

Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, 16-year-old Jaydun Garcia took his own life at a makeshift home for youth who lack foster placements.

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 ...

Three fired federal employees who worked on public lands in New Mexico talk about what mass workforce reduction could mean for the future of conservation ...

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.

Across the U.S., 40 dioceses and religious orders have declared bankruptcy. The first was the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, in 2004. The most recent was the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, in late ...