Decades ago, a medical emergency brought Jean Whitehorse to an Indian Health Service facility in Gallup. There, she says, she ...
This analysis first published in our Midweek newsletter, which runs each Wednesday. Since 1996, the Legislature has met for ...
Fewer Native Americans own their own homes compared to New Mexicans as a whole, and the state must help close that gap, ...
New Mexico State Capitol. Image by Marjorie Childress. Alcohol costs New Mexico dearly. It killed 1,878 residents in 2020, three times the nation’s rate. But getting hammered here is cheap. At the ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – JUNE 26, 2022: A man shops in the alcohol department at a grocery store in Albuquerque. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth Alcohol kills New Mexicans at a higher ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...