Episode Archives - New Mexico In Focus

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…

Looking Ahead to a Post-DOJ APD

May 30, 2025

A cityscape at night shows illuminated buildings, including two high-rise towers with orange-lit roofs, against a dark sky with city lights in the background.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we explore the future for the Albuquerque Police Department, now that an 11-year, federally mandated reform effort has ended. Police Chief Harold Medina strikes a reassuring tone, telling NMiF host Nash Jones: “We’re not going back to where we were… We’ve built a strong department that has accountability,…