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A committee of community leaders is in the process of contracting transportation services to help provide ground transportation to Aspen from other regional airports while the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport is closed for eight months next year.
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Regan Mertz/Aspen Public RadioPanels in this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival will use art and music to highlight America’s past, while the world’s top thought leaders will discuss the country’s future. -
Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Public RadioJohn Doyle, Rob Ittner and Torre are running in an open primary for Pitkin County’s District 1 seat. Two of the candidates will advance to the General Election in November. -
Colorado River Fire RescueFirefighters have now reached 90% containment on the fire that broke out south of Rifle on Tuesday. Some evacuation orders remain in place. -
Photo Courtesy of Land+ShelterArchitect Taylor Higgins helped bring the Little Red Schoolhouse expansion project to life. Her firm designed the 5,650-square-foot building addition, which broke ground on June 17.
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On today's newscast: The three candidates for Pitkin County’s District 1 commissioner seat disagree about the value of expanding the airport, Aspen City Council issued its final approvals on Tuesday to get construction moving on the former city hall building, and Stage 2 fire restrictions start today across the region, and more.
Regional News
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Courtesy Phil for Colorado / Caroline Llanes, Aspen Public RadioMichael Bennet and Phil Weiser are trying to set themselves apart from one another in the final days of the gubernatorial primary, despite similar views on environmental issues in Colorado. -
Maeve Conran/Rocky Mountain Community RadioA coalition of community groups and the Boulder County District Attorney's office has been handing out free gun safes to residents. The idea is to encourage safe storage and have productive conversations about gun safety. -
Caroline Llanes/Rocky Mountain Community RadioCritics say the BLM’s proposed policies would make it easier for oil and gas companies to shift the financial cost of cleaning up retired, polluting wells to taxpayers. -
Bob Wick/Bureau of Land ManagementIt allows a lawsuit against the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monument designations to move forward.
NPR News
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Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via Getty ImagesThe ordeal has left fans forced to either miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or scramble to find new tickets, often costing more and for worse seats. -
OgataTo mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride. -
A24Two couples spend an ill-advised evening together in the tense comedy The Invite. Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, star in the film, which plays it a little too safe. -
Ruth Sherlock/NPRNayef Samaro, 25, was killed in an Israeli military raid on Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, as he prepared to meet his wife at the hospital for the birth of their first child.
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Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, and Russia attacked various regions of Ukraine, as their war grinds on. -
The cause of the damage could not be independently verified, and authorities did not immediately issue a statement on the incident. -
Bolton pleaded guilty to one count of retaining national defense information while he was a national security adviser during President Trump's first term, saying: "And I am sorry for it." -
Observers said on Friday the government is responding to evidence that the ban on young children holding accounts on platforms including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube had failed since it came into force in December year. -
The former first lady had previously been sentenced to four years in a separate case involving the Unification Church. -
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