Kaiya Brown was at work last week when she started getting the texts. Her friends were asking if she’d seen the news: The Trump administration wants to cut funding for tribal colleges by nearly 90%.

This column originally ran in El Rito Media newspapers, including the Rio Grande Sun. Walter Brueggemann died last week. You likely have never heard his name. But to a small population of biblical ...

The State Ethics Commission is alleging in a lawsuit filed last week that a nonprofit organization failed to disclose tens of ...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender ...

The treatment was simple — three pills a day, best taken on a full stomach — and it cured Gabriel Serna of hepatitis C in eight weeks. He just had to wait eight years to get it. In theory, ...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration has quietly ended a state task force created to find solutions to a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The group hasn’t met since May, a few ...

After the Interstate Stream Commission voted in 2014 to build a diversion on the Gila River, local governments in Luna, Grant, Hidalgo, and Grant counties took over the project.Notably, one of the ...

Even when enforcement was at its peak, police never swept up more than a fraction of intoxicated drivers. That’s plain from comparing the rate at which people report drunk driving to the number caught ...

This story is co-published by New Mexico In Depth and the Guardian US, as part of the series “America’s dirty divide.” Corky Stewart, a retired geologist, and his wife live in a rural subdivision in ...

Decades ago, Norm Gaume, a water advocate, paddler, and former director of the Interstate Stream Commission, hauled a canoe to central New Mexico, thinking he’d float down the Rio Grande through the ...

New Mexico In Depth co-published this story produced by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez wants to take over the state’s “slow progress” in reforming public education to ensure all children are sufficiently educated as required by a landmark 2018 ...