Nine months into the pandemic, Carlsbad residents are divided, defiant and in search of a silver lining.

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.

Once the Wild West, Las Vegas is now the wired West as parents and kids cope with a life lived online.

A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation

On the Navajo Nation, the coronavirus is leaving children motherless, families lost and traditions in peril. But Diné women fight on.

Voters respond to what’s changed since 2016

Searchlight photographer Don J. Usner travelled the state during early voting to capture New Mexicans as they head to the polls.

A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators

Searchlight answers key questions about the 2020 voting process

Low flowing Rio Grande leaves valley farmers in a lurch