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 ...

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?

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?

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 ...

On May 9, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license to Holtec International to construct and operate an interim storage facility for nuclear waste in southeastern New Mexico, giving a green ...

Decades-old nuclear waste persists in a popular recreation area near the Los Alamos National Laboratory, study finds ...

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 ...

In a windowless corridor of PF-4, the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium processing facility, the deputy director of weapons stood among a cluster of journalists and National Nuclear Security ...

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 ...