



November 25, 2020
Deep red and feeling blue
Nine months into the pandemic, Carlsbad residents are divided, defiant and in search of a silver lining.
November 25, 2020
A Black life ends in a New Mexico police shooting
A state police officer shot and killed Rodney Applewhite on a barren road south of Albuquerque. A week later, his shattered family still has no information about why, and how, his life ended.
November 18, 2020
Not Even Remotely
Once the Wild West, Las Vegas is now the wired West as parents and kids cope with a life lived online.
November 11, 2020
Uprooted
A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation
November 11, 2020
The deadly loss of Navajo women
On the Navajo Nation, the coronavirus is leaving children motherless, families lost and traditions in peril. But Diné women fight on.
November 3, 2020
Then and Now: Portraits of Albuquerque Voters
Voters respond to what’s changed since 2016
November 2, 2020
New Mexicans go to the polls
Searchlight photographer Don J. Usner travelled the state during early voting to capture New Mexicans as they head to the polls.
October 29, 2020
Strangers in a foreign land
A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators
October 27, 2020
Is New Mexico Ready for Election Day?
Searchlight answers key questions about the 2020 voting process
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