"It's going to be very difficult at this point to keep it out of the United States," said Dr. Samantha Holeck, state ...

The plaintiffs are asking for roughly $200,000 to pay to bring in experts to weigh in and to meet with the community.

Lawmakers have argued that amid ongoing failures by CYFD to protect children, it should be taken from the governor's control.

The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

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

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

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, ...

From his home on the former site of a fire lookout tower, Charlie Marshall has expansive views of the forested hills around the community of Timberon, where he had hoped to spend his early retirement ...

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 ...

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 ...