The post Poisoning the well appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico. Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region The post Poisoning the well appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico.

The post Inside the manslaughter conviction of a Las Cruces police officer appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico. Before Brad Lunsford was charged with manslaughter for the 2022 shooting of Presley Eze, Searchlight New Mexico analyzed hundreds of police shootings across the state. We showed that officers are almost always found to be “acting in the line of duty” after killing someone. The post Inside the manslaughter conviction of a Las Cruces police officer appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico.

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The post Wipeout: New Mexicans talk about what mass firings mean for the future of public lands appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico. Searchlight connected with three abruptly terminated federal employees, who offer deep insights on the meaning of the purge that just happened. The post Wipeout: New Mexicans talk about what mass firings mean for the future of public lands appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico.

The post We choose to remember appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico. During an era when history is being suppressed for political purposes, archives that document the truth are more important than ever. The post We choose to remember appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico.