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Fire Season in NM; Planting Seeds in a Burn Scar

June 5, 2025
Aerial view of a mountain landscape with forested hills, some areas showing signs of previous wildfire damage, under a partly cloudy blue sky.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we dig into this year’s ongoing fire season. In 2022, the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burned more than 340,000 acres of spruce, fir and ponderosa pine. Today, recovery for the forest in the burn scar remains a work in progress. Correspondent Elizabeth Miller takes us to one of…

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APD Shooting Victim’s Parents Offer Message to Other Families

May 30, 2025
Three people sit around a black table having a discussion in a studio with blue screens in the background.

5.30.25 – Steve and Renetta Torres lost their son, Christopher, in 2011 when two plainclothes APD detectives jumped a wall into the family’s back yard and shot him three times in the back. “There’s strength in numbers,” Renetta Torres says about the couple’s decade-and-a-half fight for change.  Host/Correspondent: Jeff Proctor  Guests: Renetta Torres, Son Killed by APD…

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