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The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Can the Albuquerque Police Department ever be reformed?
Despite 10 years of federal oversight, Albuquerque police are killing more people than ever
The weight of an empty chair
Tens of thousands of students go missing every day from New Mexico schools
Fined and stripped of his marijuana license, Dineh Benally keeps on growing
Navajo cannabis farmer claims he’s providing ‘sacrament’ for a Native church
A New Mexico childhood
“Whiskey Tender,” a new memoir, recalls growing up in Farmington in the 1970s
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.
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
The reawakening of America’s nuclear dinosaurs
Are America’s plutonium pits too old to perform in the new Cold War? Or are new ones necessary?
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.
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Environment
A dwindling, mighty river
A Rio Grande photo expedition shows the beauty and perils along 470 miles of New Mexico’s prize waterway.
How green is New Mexico’s governor?
Michelle Lujan Grisham gets low grades at home for failing to address climate change. Why is she being honored from afar?
Parched in ‘Podunk,’ New Mexico
Water pipes are failing in rural towns across America. Is their future on the drink?
Education
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.
From cars and couches to safe havens for the homeless
Dozens of families are living at a transformed hotel in Albuquerque, where the unhoused can find refuge and their kids have room to thrive.
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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