Santa Fe. As a high school student, she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican as part of a program for teenagers called ...

On May 16, 17-year-old Makamy Sage Anderson took her own life at a home assigned to her by the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. Makamy, who was pregnant at the time of her death, is ...

A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.

During the decades that he’s lived in his home southwest of Santa Fe, Jose Villegas was oblivious to the toxic chemicals that were seeping through the aquifer, slowly spreading under his house in the ...

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of ...

Decades-old nuclear waste persists in a popular recreation area near the Los Alamos National Laboratory, study finds ...

Nuclear LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?

Three fired federal employees who worked on public lands in New Mexico talk about what mass workforce reduction could mean for the future of conservation ...

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons ...

In a windowless corridor of PF-4, the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium processing facility, the deputy director of weapons stood among a cluster of journalists and National Nuclear Security ...

Victoria Robledo holds her new baby, Silas, at home in Clovis. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Health Maternal health crisis in New Mexico: services shrink, risks grow ...