Sara had been preparing for a radio interview earlier this month to promote her plans to open an at-home child care center in ...

When Diane Denish was elected lieutenant governor, she didn’t think too much about the glass ceiling she’d just shattered.

When Soledad Chávez de Chacón became the first woman to govern New Mexico — albeit briefly — in 1924, she was aware of the ...

New Mexico becomes the 47th state admitted to the Union. Nina Otero-Warren helped lead women in a movement that paved the way ...

Amid an expansion of New Mexico’s child care assistance program to universal access, the state Early Childhood Education and ...

What does a new medical school cost these days? About $600 million, if plans to reconstruct the University of New Mexico ...

Eight years ago, I embarked on the most ambitious project of my journalism career: I had been offered a job as a reporter at ...

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 ...

Over the past four years, a combination of financial challenges have put New Mexico’s rural hospitals on edge. Declining populations and low reimbursement rates for Medicaid and Medicare patients, who ...

I was raised on the northern border of the Navajo Nation in the 1980s, the final stronghold of the old Indigenous world. Without the internet, I relied on television, books and the top branches of ...

On a sunny day in late October, a handful of people from Picuris Pueblo drove to Carson National Forest and parked their vehicles off a dirt road that reaches into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. They ...

GALLUP, N.M. — At the end of the Howard Johnson Hotel’s orange and white hallway, Dr. Caleb Lauber paused by a mirror as if he were lost. The mirror was an invention of the crafty security guards ...