New Mexico In Depth

Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust

Additional reporting provided by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren ...
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Extreme heat imperils health and traditional ways of life, lawmakers hear

Melissa Riley, who is Mescalero Apache, remembers hunting deer and elk with her parents and grandfather as a child, ...
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Accountability, transparency needed in education spending, Native survey respondents say

State officials and schools need to collaborate better with tribes and families in the education of Native students and disclose more information to the public while strengthening community oversight ...
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Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica

Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust By Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica ...
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Poverty fell more than a third in New Mexico due to tax changes, but there’s more to do

The first cars arrived before dawn. By 9 a.m., vehicles snaked through the food distribution event at the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. It was a week before Christmas, and thousands of families ...
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Gila: An unpredictable river, even in the best of times

Tucked away in the southwestern corner of New Mexico, the headwaters of the Gila River pour out of mountains remote and wild. At least five other times in the past century, officials thought about ...
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As water reaches eastern Navajo communities, it brings possibilities and homecomings

For a while, Chee Smith Jr. thought he was going to have to send his father to die among strangers. His family lives at Whitehorse Lake, a Navajo chapter where, until a few years ago, roughly 550 of ...
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Money for abandoned uranium mine cleanup spurs questions about design, jobs

This story is part of a collaboration from the Institute for Nonprofit News Rural News Network in partnership with INN members Indian Country Today, Buffalo’s Fire, InvestigateWest, KOSU, New Mexico ...
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Albuquerque’s vision for non-police first responders comes down to earth

Printed in white block letters, the question stretched across billboards around Albuquerque last summer. And it still haunts the mother of two, Elaine Maestas, who helped pay to put them up. “What if ...
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Diverting the Rio Grande into a grown-over, decades-old canal could cut New Mexico’s water debt

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 ...