Meet Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist who is quietly organizing county-level rejection of a landmark law ...

Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, 16-year-old Jaydun Garcia took his own life at a makeshift home for youth ...

Howard Hutchinson’s group, the Coalition, has roots in decades-old movements which hold that state governments and private ...

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On March 31, the courtroom of First Judicial District Court Judge Matthew Wilson had a lot of lawyers on hand, in the room itself and on screens mounted above the benches and seats. I counted five ...

When public records reveal sensitive details, the desire for privacy collides with the need for government transparency. The recent deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa-Hackman have ...

Such a move would block the public’s ability to see large amounts of investigative records that are ordinarily available for review Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization ...

Judging by what happened with crime scene photos from the murders made famous by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” public interest in seeing post-mortem images of the Hackmans will be extremely high An ...

The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative ...