Makamy Anderson’s death is the most recent tragedy to come to light amid a string of deaths of children in the state’s care.

Aviva Nathan grew up in Santa Fe. As a high school student, she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican as part of a program for teenagers called Generation Next. She graduated from United World College in ...

A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.

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 ...

The décor inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center (YSC) is more in line with the children’s wing of your local library than a jail built for kids. The walls and furniture are painted in ...

The Catholic church in New Mexico paid millions to settle sex abuse cases, but it won’t publicly list many of the priests who were accused.

Taylor Black, 63, fills an underground cistern with potable water he hauled home from a well in Goulding, Utah, with help from his 1-year-old grandson Bryant and daughter Erika. Black also has to haul ...

During the decades that he’s lived in his home southwest of Santa Fe, Jose Villegas was oblivious to the toxic chemicals that were seeping through the aquifer, slowly spreading under his house in the ...

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far.

Nuclear LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?