After Searchlight New Mexico and other news outlets published a researcher’s findings of 80-year-old plutonium contamination ...

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 ...

Politicians, businessmen and cartel operatives have all benefited from the hundreds of millions of dollars New Mexico’s horse ...

Noah Raess, Searchlight’s 2024 summer intern, is a journalism major at New Mexico State University. Since 2021, he has ...

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 ...

The following essay by Alicia Inez Guzmán, the reporter responsible for this coverage, sets out to describe her personal and family history with the Lab. Her essay also serves as an act of disclosure.

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 ...

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 ...