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 ...

Aviva Nathan grew up in Santa Fe. As a high school student, she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican as part of a program for teenagers called Generation Next. She graduated from United World College in ...

Joshua Bowling, Searchlight's criminal justice reporter, spent nearly six years covering local government, the environment and other issues at the Arizona Republic. His accountability reporting ...

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 ...

Then-defense attorney Sam Bregman talks with defendants Keith Sandy (left) and Dominique Perez (right) in 2015, during a preliminary hearing. Bregman is currently the district attorney for Bernalillo ...

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 ...

Nuclear LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?