Fewer Native Americans own their own homes compared to New Mexicans as a whole, and the state must help close that gap, ...

The Public Education Department’s court-ordered plan to improve education for public school students across New Mexico lacks ...

There’s a lot of chatter in Albuquerque today about Mayor Tim Keller’s poor showing in this week’s mayoral election. He captured just 36% of the vote among seven candidates and now faces a runoff ...

In any given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in dozens of detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Often left out of research on climate and carceral ...

Christina spent much of 2023 traveling to Santa Fe for medical care during her pregnancy. She’d leave home about two hours before each doctor’s visit for the roughly 100-mile one way trip from her ...

Printed in white block letters, the question stretched across billboards around Albuquerque last summer. And it still haunts the mother of two, Elaine Maestas, who helped pay to put them up. “What if ...

In February 2021, as New Mexico lawmakers considered landmark legislation to loosen restrictions on alcohol sales, the state’s alcohol epidemiologist Annaliese Mayette set out to assess the bill.

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 ...

Note: This story contains a description of the death of an infant. This article is copublished with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. New Mexico In Depth is a member ...

Two years after New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica first reported that Indigenous children in New Mexico face disproportionately high rates of harsh school punishment, triggering a state Department of ...