Featured Stories
“Extreme” fires sweep through Ruidoso
A standoff between the housed and the unhoused in Española
Angry residents demand removal of the city’s homeless encampment
Death threats. Harassment. Intimidation. For New Mexico women, a life in politics can bring all three.
As hostilities grow, women face tough questions about public service: Is it worth the risk?
Basic math errors. Faulty statistics. Conclusions that don’t add up.
Amid a plethora of inaccurate reporting, Albuquerque celebrates the end of a nearly 10-year federal consent decree.
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
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.
‘The finer things in life’: A small state university is spending tens of thousands on international travel and high-end furniture
Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard says the expenses are all necessary, even if he hasn’t done the math to back it up.
Criminal Justice
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…
Holidays for foster teens: CYFD sends kids to a lockup with cold “cells” and metal beds
On Thanksgiving, CYFD sent foster children to a facility for violent youth. At Christmas, kids ran away.
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