A new alert system meant to help find Native people who go missing in New Mexico went into effect Tuesday, but a key detail ...

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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 ...

PAYING THE TAB Scientists say policies can help the state cut excess drinking, but lawmakers listen to alcohol interests instead.

On a brisk February morning with snow on the ground, children arrived at Tsé Bit A’í Middle School in Shiprock, on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. Word in the hallway was something was ...

Public safety officers help an intoxicated man who had fallen asleep outside the Sports Page Lounge in Gallup, N.M. CREDIT: Ted Alcorn for New Mexico In Depth. The forecasted low in Gallup is 17 ...

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 ...

EYES ON THE ROAD In New Mexico’s war on DWI, the relentless focus on drunk drivers misses the bigger problem of addiction.

A proposal to raise New Mexico’s alcohol tax to a flat 25-cents per drink in a bid to curb the state’s exceptionally high rate of alcohol-induced deaths has disappeared behind closed doors. Both House ...

Even by the most optimistic standards, the logistics of learning in 2020 have been difficult, if not close to impossible, for a significant number of New Mexico students. Technological challenges have ...

New Mexico lawmakers protected themselves and their colleagues when they redrew political district maps crafted by a 2021 nonpartisan advisory commission, shielding incumbents of both parties from ...

For a while, Chee Smith Jr. thought he was going to have to send his father to die among strangers. His family lives at Whitehorse Lake, a Navajo chapter where, until a few years ago, roughly 550 of ...