This analysis first published in our Midweek newsletter, which runs each Wednesday. Since 1996, the Legislature has met for ...

Decades ago, a medical emergency brought Jean Whitehorse to an Indian Health Service facility in Gallup. There, she says, she ...

Fewer Native Americans own their own homes compared to New Mexicans as a whole, and the state must help close that gap, ...

The Public Education Department’s court-ordered plan to improve education for public school students across New Mexico lacks ...

There’s a lot of chatter in Albuquerque today about Mayor Tim Keller’s poor showing in this week’s mayoral election. He captured just 36% of the vote among seven candidates and now faces a runoff ...

Tucked away in the southwestern corner of New Mexico, the headwaters of the Gila River pour out of mountains remote and wild. At least five other times in the past century, officials thought about ...

In any given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in dozens of detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Often left out of research on climate and carceral ...

Printed in white block letters, the question stretched across billboards around Albuquerque last summer. And it still haunts the mother of two, Elaine Maestas, who helped pay to put them up. “What if ...

The first cars arrived before dawn. By 9 a.m., vehicles snaked through the food distribution event at the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. It was a week before Christmas, and thousands of families ...

Christina spent much of 2023 traveling to Santa Fe for medical care during her pregnancy. She’d leave home about two hours before each doctor’s visit for the roughly 100-mile one way trip from her ...