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Jan 13, 2023 · The alarm rings at 3 a.m., and Ronell Mangilit is the first one up in a house shared with four fellow teachers. He prepares breakfast, writes up the day’s math lesson, and puts on …

May 15, 2024 · After nearly a decade of federal oversight, the Albuquerque Police Department announced it has achieved total compliance with hundreds of reforms mandated under a U.S. …

Aug 6, 2020 · Listen to the story in Diné. Editor’s update: We received an outpouring of concern from readers who wanted to send donations to the people in this story. Thanks to the New …

Mar 13, 2024 · Solar snapshot. According to AES, the Rancho Viejo Solar Project would produce more than 277,315 megawatt-hours of electricity annually — enough clean energy to offset …

Mar 16, 2023 · After 34 years of service, Eric Blinman, age 69, had hoped to retire soon and volunteer for the many archaeology programs he’d helped create.

Dec 10, 2018 · La Familia-Namaste, one of New Mexico’s largest private foster care companies, is closing its doors at the end of the year. The closure comes on the heels of an investigation …

Nov 9, 2023 · 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 …

Jul 22, 2020 · David, 28, was counting the days until January 6, 2012, when his prison sentence would end and he would be released on parole. He had earned his GED diploma inside and …

Nov 1, 2024 · Searchlight New Mexico was founded to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Whoever is in power — at any level of government — the mission remains the …