New Mexico is the second-largest oil producer in the U.S., behind Texas. Drawing immense wealth from the Permian Basin, the state relies on a workforce — often Latino men — who are subjected to ...

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

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

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of ...

Taylor Black, 63, fills an underground cistern with potable water he hauled home from a well in Goulding, Utah, with help from his 1-year-old grandson Bryant and daughter Erika. Black also has to haul ...

The Albuquerque headquarters of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico New Mexico's Children Why so many Catholic churches file for bankruptcy ...

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.

School board candidate Patricia Vigil-Stockton sings along with the introductory music at her campaign rally at the Eldorado Community Center. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Featured The ...

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far.

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 ...

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.

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 ...