Outrage over the terms of Joseph Shepard’s lucrative separation package prompts a drive for a vote of no confidence in WNMU’s ...

One year ago, all eyes focused on living conditions at New Mexico’s largest juvenile jail. We haven’t looked away.

Joseph Shepard is out as president of Western New Mexico University after more than 13 years on the job. The university Board ...

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On Thanksgiving, CYFD sent foster children to a facility for violent youth. At Christmas, kids ran away. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative ...

Joseph Shepard is out as president of Western New Mexico University after more than 13 years on the job. The university Board of Regents unanimously voted to terminate his contract on Friday, although ...

Before she became a state senator, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez served as executive director of an Albuquerque-based nonprofit that worked with survivors of domestic violence. It wasn’t unusual for the ...

Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when a light 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun cracked open the predawn sky. No one in south-central New Mexico knew where it came from, or that the ...