A new lawsuit in the 2024 fatal police shooting of teenager Elijah Hadley could shed light on a persistent problem in New Mexico: an outsized portion of police violence begins with a welfare check ...

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 ...

A new book by New Mexico-born author Mariah Blake explains how a previously unknown Manhattan Project program ushered in the ...

The new civil action claims that the former WNMU president misappropriated at least $177,000 meant for ADA compliance and used it on a patio to host his daughter’s wedding reception ...

New Mexico Safety Over Profit successfully fought against medical malpractice reform during the 2025 session. A state ...

“Since joining the Alliance, Gov. Lujan Grisham has been a standout and in this role, we expect she’ll continue to lead by example, share impactful solutions with other states and territories, and ...

The past, they believed, was a harbinger of what was to come. The old mine operated a mere 13 years before it was shuttered in 1939, but the damage it exacted endured for generations. Willow Creek, at ...

Raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, Alicia Inez Guzmán has written about histories of place, identity and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role at ...

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Irving Lin, a jovial entrepreneur in his late 60s, wanted to share a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a near-miraculous way out of the economic devastation wrought on Southern ...

Near the pumps of a gas station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a teenager in foster care sat in the back of a squad car, sobbing and gasping for air. Her hands were cuffed and her legs were bound in a ...