Susan Montoya Bryan

The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S.

Not many people know the world's first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil. It would be weeks later that humanity would witness the power of atomic weapons when bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II.

Watchdogs are raising new concerns about legacy contamination in Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and home to a renewed effort to manufacture key components for nuclear weapons.

A top Democrat in the U.S. House says it will take a shift of power in Congress to ensure that legislation is finally passed to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

Members of Arizona’s congressional delegation have introduced legislation that would authorize a water rights settlement with three Native American tribes in the Southwest. The proposal carries a price tag of $5 billion — larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress. Supporters say it would provide more certainty for water users as the Colorado River continues to get stretched. U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly said the legislation marks a historic step forward in resolving what has been a decades-long…

It was the largest and most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The government-sparked conflagration known as the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire forever changed the lives, and livelihoods, of thousands of residents in numerous rural communities.

A dozen people were inside a movie set church the day Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza during a rehearsal for the Western film “Rust.”

Thunderstorms are hopscotching around the Southwestern U.S., bringing much-needed moisture to a region where every drop counts. In fact, it’s the time of year when Arizona and New Mexico receive about half of their annual precipitation. Northern Mexico logs even more. From church altars and farm houses to city halls, prayers, songs and even festivals are held each year in hopes of having a bountiful monsoon from mid-June through September. The trick this season will be avoiding more devastating…

Search and rescue crews have been able to trimdown the list of residents unaccounted for after people fled from a New Mexico mountain village from a pair of fast-moving wildfires. Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said Tuesday there were a few people who authorities have yet to make contact with following evacuations last week that extended to thousands of homes and businesses in and around the community. The fires have been blamed for at least two deaths and the destruction or damage to an estimated…

Residents are returning to a fire-ravaged village in the mountains of southern New Mexico. The mayor warns that some parts of Ruidoso remain off limits as special search and rescue teams go house to house along the hardest-hit streets.