State data shows a 21% increase in opioid deaths in 2025, with 900 death last year, even as overdose fatalities nationwide ...

Policies such as a state accessibility act, universal text-to-911 and widespread closed captioning, advocates say, are ...

The Energy Department has underestimated the potential deadly consequences should plutonium escape the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which produces bomb cores for America’s nuclear ...

Public commenters say the changes would create rigid budgeting requirements and could potentially violate educators' privacy.

A state commission on Thursday approved a plan to upgrade behavioral health services in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, with an emphasis on expanding medication-assisted treatment for ...

The change — which comes as UNM endeavors to double medical school enrollment — has drawn concerns from some clinical faculty ...

The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is facing accusations it refused to take responsibility for a runaway teenage boy despite officials knowing his location, including after he was ...

Searchlight spoke with six experts about what the new administration could mean — for everything from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a possible return to underground detonations at the Nevada test ...

At first, you don’t know what you’re looking at. A gray expanse of uneven geometry surrounded by undulating brown. Shift your perspective a bit and it might be a close-up of a distressed textile, with ...

After the Albuquerque facility’s contract ends, CYFD plans to seek contracts to operate three group homes for kids. Searchlight New Mexico is an independent, nonpartisan and philanthropically ...

On July 25, I drove to the Pueblo of Laguna to speak with Loretta Anderson, Millie Chino and Vincent Rodriguez, steering members of an advocacy group called the Southwest Uranium Miners Coalition Post ...