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 ...

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 ...

Sgt. Robert Mason, a longtime corrections officer in New Mexico’s largest jail, was placed on paid administrative leave this week after Searchlight New Mexico published an article detailing the jail’s ...

Francisco Quintana and Judeah Piro play with a xylophone made from gun parts in a metal shop at Robert F. Kennedy Charter School while Devin Quintana watches. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico ...

Women make up nearly 44 percent of New Mexico’s Legislature — one of the largest representations of any state in the country. They make up the majority in the House of Representatives. Now, as the ...

In Albuquerque, the eviction moratorium did little to stop landlords from trying to force hundreds of people from their homes.

On a recent morning, a busy thoroughfare near the Albuquerque International Sunport was a classic neighborhood picture of young mothers pushing strollers, exuberant elementary-age kids, and sleepy ...

Glenn Buckland doesn’t expect to live much beyond March. The 56-year-old small-business owner from Rio Rancho was diagnosed with plasma cell leukemia in April 2019 and chose to stop chemotherapy last ...