Even in blue New Mexico, state representative Angelica Rubio is seen as idealistic — but her strong stances have also helped ...

Unanimously, the newly appointed regents at Western New Mexico University have approved a plan to strike down former ...

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 ...

To get a sense of how the next wave of compensation will really work, Searchlight spoke with Julian Duque, communications ...

Aviva Nathan grew up in Santa Fe. As a high school student, she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican as part of a program for teenagers called Generation Next. She graduated from United World College in ...

With ample wind and sun, Carlsbad stands to be at the epicenter of renewable energy for the Southwest. But can the state diversify from oil and gas dependence before it’s too late?

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 ...

Wendy Catalano sits in her wheelchair inside her apartment at the Lolomas complex in Clovis. She began withholding a portion of her rent after water damage prevented her from being able to use part of ...

During the decades that he’s lived in his home southwest of Santa Fe, Jose Villegas was oblivious to the toxic chemicals that were seeping through the aquifer, slowly spreading under his house in the ...