Senator Shannon Pinto, the only Diné member of the New Mexico Senate, serves a constituency whose lives have been threatened ...

One month ago, Searchlight New Mexico reported on the findings of analytical chemist Michael Ketterer: Acid Canyon, a popular recreation area in Los Alamos, may have the oldest plutonium contamination ...

In the last three decades, New Mexico racetracks have shuttered and those still standing hold a fraction of the race days they did in the 1990s. Yet across the state, horse racetracks and their ...

Faced with strip searches, isolation and hourslong waits to use a toilet, three juvenile inmates describe their experiences in New Mexico’s largest jail for children. Searchlight New Mexico is a ...

New Mexico’s racing industry is a long way removed from its heyday, yet it remains one of the state’s largest moneymakers. Last year, the state’s five racinos — horse racing tracks that also house ...

New Mexico’s horse racing industry holds nearly half the races it did in the 1990s. Despite that decline, it remains a formidable source of revenue. Politicians, businessmen and cartel operatives have ...

Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when a light 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun cracked open the predawn sky. No one in south-central New Mexico knew where it came from, or that the ...

Have a story you want to see covered? Searchlight New Mexico regularly conducts months-long investigations into systemic issues in New Mexico. When we conduct those in-depth stories, we first go out ...