Santa Fe. As a high school student, she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican as part of a program for teenagers called ...

On May 16, 17-year-old Makamy Sage Anderson took her own life at a home assigned to her by the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. Makamy, who was pregnant at the time of her death, is ...

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 ...

A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.

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 ...

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

Victoria Robledo holds her new baby, Silas, at home in Clovis. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Health Maternal health crisis in New Mexico: services shrink, risks grow ...

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.

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons ...

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.