New Mexico’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Task Force plans to meet publicly for the first time next Friday. The ...

With the 2025 legislative session over and out, many have moved on. But some are taking stock of why some bills failed while ...

This reporting was made possible by grants from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the McCune Charitable Foundation, the Con Alma Health Foundation, and the Association of Health Care ...

With the 2025 legislative session over and out, many have moved on. But some are taking stock of why some bills failed while others made it through the legislative wringer. One bill sitting on the ...

New Mexico’s alcohol industry is raising a glass to a proposed liquor tax hike — because it’s so slight, most drinkers won’t even feel it. A multi-year effort to meaningfully raise alcohol taxes hit a ...

Bella Davis is an Indigenous affairs reporter focused on issues including education and the missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives crisis. She is a Yurok tribal member, born in Eureka, ...

Native American students’ right to wear tribal regalia at school ceremonies could soon be enshrined in state law. The House unanimously passed Senate Bill 163 on Wednesday, sending it to Gov. Michelle ...

The proposed state budget includes $20 million over the next three years for efforts to keep college students enrolled. Some of that money could be used to address high rates of housing and food ...

New Mexico is set to become the fourth state to create an alert system meant to help find Native Americans who have gone missing. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham plans to sign Senate Bill 41 into law, ...

New Mexico could soon be cleaning up some of the hundreds of abandoned uranium mines and other contaminated sites around the state and paving the way for continued efforts — if $50 million for that ...