New Mexico's film industry has entered into a lull. The hope is the slowdown will soon subside as movie ranches sit empty.
New Mexico's Film Industry
Between the years 2019 and 2023, the total five-year spending on film production in Santa Fe County was just over $804 million.
There are 8,000 people in New Mexico employed in the movie business. As the industry lull drags on, will that number decrease?
Dead in the Desert
'An open graveyard': Skeletal remains lie unrecovered in New Mexico's borderlands
In just over a year, a volunteer organization found more than two dozen sites containing human bones in the Southern New Mexico desert.
Dead in the Desert
El Paso Sector known as 'deadliest single place on the border'
Migrants crossing through the El Paso Sector of the U.S. border, 264 miles along West Texas and New Mexico, often face rough terrain in remote, arid stretches, with myriad dangers.
Dead in the Desert
Legal migration grows increasingly unfeasible amid record-high backlogs
The legal process for entering the U.S. is nearly impossible even for foreign nationals seeking refuge from violence in their home countries.Â
Dead in the Desert
An unlikely act of protest: Searching the desert for dead migrants
Dead in the Desert
A mission to find and remember the dead
Dead in the Desert: About this report
Inquiry into unrecovered remains was guided by story of Salvadoran migrant
VIDEO: Group searches for remains in N.M.'s borderlands
Housing affordability crisis
Since its founding in 1986, Homewise has evolved from offering about a dozen home improvement loans each year to a developer that has built hundreds of homes.
The Immigration Crackdown
GEO Group, which owns and operates a Lea County prison housing state inmates, has indicated an interest in taking on ICE detainees.Â
Trump policies have caused disruptions at schools and businesses and have led some immigrants to hunker down in their homes in fear.Â
The city of Santa Fe has revived a 10-person Immigration Committee initially formed by city ordinance in 1999.
A Rapidly Aging New Mexico
By 2030, New Mexico is projected to have the fourth highest percentage of people over age 65 of any state in the nation.
Local shelter and hospital try to help aging people who are vulnerable on the street, but officials say resources aren't sufficient.
According to data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, people 50 and older are the fastest-growing group of homeless people in the U.S.
Built in the 1950s, the home is designated as a "contributing" property under city ordinances, which created some roadblocks to building a ramp.
The Trump Effect: Immigration
State faces uncertainty if Trump carries out promises to secure the southern border and deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
New Mexico's Deficit of Doctors
El Centro Family Health is a study in trends making it hard to access primary care — as well as in potential solutions.
Homelessness in New Mexico
Camp Hope is a beacon for the 50 residents who call it home, but frustration with visible homelessness persists outside its walls.
Santa Fe has ambitious plans for ending homelessness, but many services are either stalled or facing steep community opposition.
Camp Hope has made strides in helping Las Cruces' homeless find permanent housing, but a decrease in affordable housing is slowing its success.
