High school graduates are the first to walk with the protected right to wear cultural attire after the state of New Mexico passed legislation this spring.

Bella Davis is an Indigenous affairs reporter at New Mexico In Depth, a local nonprofit newsroom. She is a Yurok tribal member born in northern California and raised in central New Mexico. High school ...

Documents show Interior rejected a union contract for employees at BLM headquarters days before the inauguration.

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Oil workers in New Mexico are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.

Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.

The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.

Interested parties say water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement are threatened by the budget reconciliation bill’s amendment.

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