Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick …
Oct 4, 2024 · The editor of New Mexico’s largest newspaper has lost his job for stealing groceries at a Walmart. Public and private records obtained by Searchlight New Mexico paint a clear picture of what happened. What remains a mystery is why.
Searchlight New Mexico | Independent Investigative Journalism
Dec 27, 2024 · Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico.
Threatened and Restrained | Searchlight New Mexico
Dec 19, 2024 · This story contains descriptions and images of physical abuse and injuries to minors. Just before lunchtime on Oct. 24 of this year, an employee of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department heard what sounded like an argument between two teenage boys coming from inside a room in the agency’s Albuquerque office building, where the …
Federal judge demands environmental review of nuclear bomb …
Oct 17, 2024 · The last time that NNSA and DOE produced a tome encompassing multiple, connected facilities was in 2008, when the agencies looked at seven sites across the nation’s weapons complex. They held a total of 20 public hearings and received some 100,000 public comments, all of which were considered in the final record of decision.Ultimately, that decision kept plutonium pit production to a minimum ...
State auditor slams lavish spending at Western New Mexico …
November 21, 2024 | Nearly a year after Searchlight New Mexico first exposed WNMU President Joseph Shepard’s big spending on international flights, resort stays and exotic furniture, a new government report accuses university officials of violating policy and wasting a huge amount of taxpayer money. A new report by New Mexico’s state auditor slams spending by university President Joseph ...
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
Investigative Reporter | Alicia Inez Guzmán was raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, and has written about histories of place, identity and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role covering the nuclear industry, focusing on the impact of nuclear weapons expansion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, …
Whoever is in power—Searchlight New Mexico works to tell the …
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 same.
Shannon Pinto, the only Navajo in the New Mexico senate
Oct 3, 2024 · Senator Shannon Pinto, the only Diné member of the New Mexico Senate, serves a constituency whose lives have been threatened over time by industry, exploitation, and violence
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
Feb 19, 2019 · Amy Linn has written about social issues and child well-being throughout her career, starting at the Miami Herald and including work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner and Bloomberg News. She was the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to write about teenagers on death row; the resulting stories appeared in the New York Times and other publications.
Why recovering opioid victims can’t get the medicine they need ...
Nov 20, 2024 · ESPAÑOLA — Daniel Valerio wants to get back to the mountains. The 69-year-old Marine Corps veteran has been out of work since Colorado’s Wolf Creek ski area shuttered temporarily during the early days of the pandemic.