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 ...

For years, the public had no clear picture of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium footprint. Had the ubiquitous plutonium at LANL infiltrated the soil? The water? Had it migrated outside the ...

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 ...

Camilla Brom in her backyard at Rancho San Marcos, with the proposed site for the Rancho Viejo Solar Project some 2,000 feet behind her. Michael Benanav/Searchlight New Mexico Featured Burning ...

Then-defense attorney Sam Bregman talks with defendants Keith Sandy (left) and Dominique Perez (right) in 2015, during a preliminary hearing. Bregman is currently the district attorney for Bernalillo ...

A secretive group called New Mexico Safety Over Profit is working hard behind the scenes to derail medical malpractice reform in the state legislature ...

Racehorses compete at Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino in July. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Politics Racehorses, slot machines and election campaigns ...

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 ...

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