In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ...

Ryan Martinez at the Rio Arriba County Adult Detention Center. Credit: Office of the First Judicial District Attorney. In a deal made on the eve of his criminal trial, 24-year-old Ryan Martinez — a ...

Outside magazine, where he specialized in investigative reporting, ambitious longform narratives, and essays. He has also ...

When officers from the Rio Rancho Police Department first approached Patrick Ethridge, he was self-scanning a cart of groceries at a Walmart on Unser Boulevard, the city’s main drag. It was shortly ...

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

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 ...