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Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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A look back at the week's top stories and interviews with KC Counts. This week, we hear from regional experts on food insecurity, how to make a midlife you love, and learn about a ballot item for the DASWCD. What's that? Listen and find out! -
On Thursday the New Mexico Supreme Court voted unanimously to lift the stay on the AI data centers air quality permit and denied challenge by environmental group. -
35 hunger strikers ranging from city council members to local influencers participated in the strike, going without food for 24 hours. -
Bob Moore, El Paso Matters President and CEO, covers top stories each week. -
Scott Brocato talks with Athena Huckaby, Chair of the Las Cruces Suicide Prevention Task Force and Special Project Manager with Doña Ana County Health and Human Services, about the event, and about September being National Suicide Prevention Month.
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Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to The Associated Press that “border wall panel installation is underway” in a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County in west Texas known as Big Bend 1. -
Elsie Begay, her granddaughter Lucy Allison Mike, and Begay’s best friend Dora Franklin died in the flood Tuesday near Newcomb, New Mexico, a community of about 400 people, family members said Friday. -
Mount Taylor is sacred to the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the pueblos of Laguna, Acoma and Zuni. -
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during the 2016 election, used Facebook data sold to a political consulting firm, during opening statements in a trial over the platform's data protections.
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As the classical concert season ramps up, two of America's finest orchestras will soon be led by new conductors when Daniel Harding takes over in Los Angeles and Elim Chan leads in San Francisco. -
The Islamic State group-inspired attacks were among the deadliest in Sri Lanka's history, killing 42 foreigners. -
As the U.S. conflict with Iran drags, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have opened a new front, taking new territory and displacing more than 100,000 people. -
A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson. -
OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.
Trump's attacks on free press echo rhetoric used by autocrats, Jodie Ginsberg says
How abortion drug restrictions make it harder to treat other conditions
News Wrap: FAA issues ground stops at major East Coast airports due to equipment failure
War correspondent Scott Anderson on the shifting landscape in the Middle East
September 21, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
