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Alex Heard named executive editor of Searchlight New Mexico
Vida, muerte o deportación
Inmigrantes indocumentados se enfrentan a una decisión dolorosa si necesitan asistencia médica: ¿Deberían arriesgarse al puesto de control migratorio?
“Extreme” fires sweep through Ruidoso
Entire town is evacuated; state of emergency is declared
LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?
The venting may harm pregnant women and fetuses, advocates say.
Environment
Burning question: What’s the right place for a solar farm?
Fire hazards have Eldorado residents dead set against a solar project, underscoring a national quandary: Some renewables come with risks.
When PFAS hits home: Poisoned wells in La Cieneguilla
Unable to drink their water, residents want action — and answers from the New Mexico National Guard.
A dwindling, mighty river
A Rio Grande photo expedition shows the beauty and perils along 470 miles of New Mexico’s prize waterway.
Education
The weight of an empty chair
Tens of thousands of students go missing every day from New Mexico schools
Reading, writing, ’rithmetic and ranching: Why rural New Mexico wants to keep the four-day school week
A photo essay about schools in the state’s smallest county, where students juggle wrangling with their ABCs
Days of wine and roses: State agencies probe lavish spending by university president
Questions abound about luxe purchases and overseas travel of Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard.
Criminal Justice
Can the Albuquerque Police Department ever be reformed?
Despite 10 years of federal oversight, Albuquerque police are killing more people than ever
Drive-by shootings: New Mexico’s ‘hidden in plain sight problem’
The drive-bys have killed children and terrorized families amid widening gun violence in New Mexico
How a cry for food sparked Christmas Day trouble in New Mexico’s largest jail for kids
The sun was setting as parents waited for the Christmas Day call from their incarcerated children, unaware of the fraught situation that had broken out hours earlier: a so-called “riot” at New Mexico’s largest jail for kids. The news media were depicting a violent uprising inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center, where a 911…
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