For nearly two weeks, Western New Mexico University’s website and digital systems have been held hostage by what officials in internal emails have called the efforts of a “foreign hacking group.” The ...

Nearly a year after Searchlight New Mexico first exposed WNMU President Joseph Shepard’s big spending on international flights, resort stays and exotic furniture, a new government report accuses ...

In January and February, county governments in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and North Carolina began passing resolutions containing nearly identical language. The resolutions oppose what they refer to as ...

Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, 16-year-old Jaydun Garcia took his own life at a makeshift home for youth who lack foster placements. Jaydun’s family included four brothers and a ...

The rise of the Coalition, and Hutchinson’s political evolution, occurred alongside the rise in the 1980s and ’90s of a right-wing land-use movement called Wise Use. The movement took its name from an ...

On March 31, the courtroom of First Judicial District Court Judge Matthew Wilson had a lot of lawyers on hand, in the room itself and on screens mounted above the benches and seats. I counted five ...

Judging by what happened with crime scene photos from the murders made famous by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” public interest in seeing post-mortem images of the Hackmans will be extremely high An ...

Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico. Our mission is to deliver ...

A collection of documents about clergy abuse in this state — housed at UNM’s special collections library — is a major step forward for victims, but there’s more to be done. Searchlight New Mexico is a ...

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative ...