Meet Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist who is quietly organizing county-level rejection of a landmark law ...

Howard Hutchinson’s group, the Coalition, has roots in decades-old movements which hold that state governments and private ...

Mostly. A judge’s ruling on a request by the estates of Gene and Betsy Hackman slightly limited which information about their ...

Such a move would block the public’s ability to see large amounts of investigative records that are ordinarily available for review Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization ...

When public records reveal sensitive details, the desire for privacy collides with the need for government transparency. The recent deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa-Hackman have ...

Judging by what happened with crime scene photos from the murders made famous by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” public interest in seeing post-mortem images of the Hackmans will be extremely high An ...

Driving along a stretch of New Mexico Highway 605, just north of the tiny Village of Milan, it’s easy to imagine that this area has always been no-man’s-land. Little appears in the distance except for ...