A new alert system meant to help find Native people who go missing in New Mexico went into effect Tuesday, but a key detail ...

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%.

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, ...

On Monday, state lawmakers on the House Taxation and Revenue Committee advanced a bill to raise taxes on alcohol. Cheered by public health advocates and tribes, and criticized by alcohol makers and ...

Two state lawmakers are trying to create a “Turquoise Alert” system in New Mexico for sending out statewide alerts when Indigenous people go missing. Sen. Angel Charley (Laguna Pueblo/Zuni Pueblo/Diné ...

New Mexico expands restorative justice pilot project By Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth | August 21, 2023 A state pilot program to implement a new discipline approach called restorative ...

According to experts who analyzed the U.S. Census data on the request of New Mexico In Depth, those changes in tax and fiscal policy deserve credit for the decline in the state’s supplemental poverty ...

As we close in on a second Trump administration, it is difficult to predict whether the president-elect will deliver on his promise to deport the country’s undocumented immigrant population estimated ...

Calls for justice for a 17-year-old Mescalero Apache boy killed by a sheriff’s deputy in June rang out Sept. 7 as the sun disappeared behind the hills bordering the tribe’s reservation in southern New ...

On a vast shrubby mesa in Southeast Albuquerque, local politicians and developers for years have envisioned a master-planned urban community with more than 10,000 homes in close proximity to a jobs ...

Large oil and gas companies gave nearly $800,000 in the past 12 months to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, partisan legislative political action committees and individual state lawmakers, according to a ...

About Heerea Rikhraj Heerea is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism who served as an editorial reporting fellow at New Mexico in Depth in 2023. In 2024 she received an ...