The decreases come after years of ramped-up screening, awareness campaigns and ensuring prompt reporting of positive tests.

Farmers have been told to expect longer wait times between irrigation deliveries and were encouraged to "take water when it ...

The reorganization is the latest in a string of challenges for Genesis HealthCare and its approximately two dozen facilities ...

With overnight office stays now prohibited, advocates say foster youth spend all day in CYFD offices and leave each night to ...

A lawsuit against New Mexico's child welfare agency was recently settled for a staggering — but sealed — $10 million, ...

Multiple candidates called for CYFD to be restructured, proposing to split the agency or relinquish control of it.

CYFD must recruit nearly 200 nonrelative foster homes and place hundreds of higher needs children in specialized care. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to ...

The latest round of federal family planning funding — which was slated to go into effect Wednesday — is stuck in bureaucratic limbo. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news ...

Driving along a stretch of New Mexico Highway 605, just north of the tiny Village of Milan, it’s easy to imagine that this area has always been no-man’s-land. Little appears in the distance except for ...

At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood. Teepees and ...

On July 25, I drove to the Pueblo of Laguna to speak with Loretta Anderson, Millie Chino and Vincent Rodriguez, steering members of an advocacy group called the Southwest Uranium Miners Coalition Post ...