On Jan. 29, a Diné woman told Searchlight New Mexico that ICE agents racially profiled and questioned her during a Jan. 22 ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is taking outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard and all five members of the Board of Regents to court over a $1.9 million buyout ...

After Searchlight New Mexico and other news outlets published a researcher’s findings of 80-year-old plutonium contamination in Los Alamos’s Acid Canyon, lab director Thom Mason deemed the local ...

A poster from the office of Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren During the week of Monday, Jan. 20, fear spread rapidly across New Mexico and Arizona, spurred by reports alleging that agents from U.S.

In 2018, President Donald Trump goaded North Korea’s Kim Jong Un by posting an infamous tweet. Un had recently stated that his nuclear launch button sat on his desk. Trump retorted by insisting his ...

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative ...

Nearly a year after Searchlight New Mexico first exposed WNMU President Joseph Shepard’s big spending on international flights, resort stays and exotic furniture, a new government report accuses ...

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Searchlight New Mexico: What will a second Trump presidency mean for nuclear weapons policy? Frank N. von Hippel: I worry about Trump being a basically destructive person, of course. He certainly wasn ...

Searchlight spoke with six experts about what the new administration could mean — for everything from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a possible return to underground detonations at the Nevada test ...

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