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A new alert system meant to help find Native people who go missing in New Mexico went into effect Tuesday, but a key detail ...
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, ...
Gallup-McKinley County Schools Superintendent Mike Hyatt is under scrutiny for alleged violations of state procurement and government ethics laws, following a complaint filed Monday with the New ...
Native American students’ right to wear tribal regalia at school ceremonies could soon be enshrined in state law. The House unanimously passed Senate Bill 163 on Wednesday, sending it to Gov. Michelle ...
An effort to change the lengths of legislative sessions each year sailed through the House of Representatives on Thursday, passing without any debate and just four lawmakers voting against it.
New Mexico’s law that governs money spent to influence the outcome of elections seems straightforward. Contribution limits are meant to level the playing field between big-moneyed interests and ...
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 ...
For the third straight year, lawmakers are trying to raise taxes on alcoholic drinks, in an attempt to reduce New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation alcohol-related death rate. This time, they just might ...
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 ...
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 ...