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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Often called the “lifeblood of northern New Mexico,” acequias are collectively tended, democratically governed irrigation ditches, primarily located in the north-central part of the state. The term ...

Molly Montgomery, a freelance contributor to Searchlight, is joining our ranks as a full-time investigator, and we couldn’t be more excited about what she’ll bring to the organization. I’ve been ...

Last week Searchlight New Mexico published two stories about the legacy of sexual abuse of children by priests in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The main piece, by Joshua Bowling, examines the overall ...

Searchlight: Much of your work involves analyzing past and potential future harms of nuclear fallout. Given Trump’s pick to run the Department of Energy — Chris Wright, CEO of fracking juggernaut ...