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Federal legislation could provide sweeping protections to the Crystal River, according to a report from a group of local stakeholders summarizing two years of work. But questions remain about to what degree local control would need to be relinquished.
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Jason Charme/Aspen Daily NewsThe Pitkin Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a proposal on first reading Wednesday to take over day-to-day operations and deferred maintenance at the Maroon Bells Scenic Area. -
Sam Ferguson/Courtesy PhotoThe Denver Museum of Nature & Science is scheduled to excavate Snowmass Village’s Ziegler Reservoir next summer for the second time. Researchers hope to discover more fossils following a massive dig over a decade ago. -
Regan Mertz/Aspen Public RadioFunding from the county will stop after 2027. The Town of Silt, the City of Rifle and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority are working to find a more permanent funding solution. -
Hannah Weaver/Aspen Public RadioEagle County is reviewing the final details of its new zoning plan. One group in Missouri Heights is mostly happy with the updates, but it worries the changes could open the door for more development in El Jebel.
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On today's podcast: The Crystal River could be one step closer to permanent protections. Carbondale police says they have named a suspect from a 2024 sexual assault case. And some Medicaid recipients in Colorado could be impacted by federal work requirements.
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Adobe StockThat’s especially true in the Mountain West. In most states, if one delivery unit shuts down, the next closest one is more than an hour away. -
Jeff Allred PhotographyAbout half of Wyoming counties don’t have an OB-GYN. At least nine don’t have labor and delivery units. -
Tierra Mallorca/UnsplashBlame wildfires and hail — made more destructive by climate change — for the deteriorating insurance situation in the West. Add in hurricanes and other disasters elsewhere, and it’s a nationwide trend — one that a new report from the advocacy group the Insurance Fairness Project says is threatening home sales. -
Bureau of Land Management WyomingThe letter comes after an August roundup in northwest Colorado, where the BLM gathered 894 wild horses. Nine died in the operation.
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Yazeed Abu KhdeirLeading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland -
Jim Urquhart/ReutersThe assassination of far right activist Charlie Kirk opened the floodgates of neighbor-on-neighbor doxing. A year later, the damage to political discourse in the U.S. remains. -
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesThe cargo plane crash in Miami is raising concerns about the safety culture at 21 Air, one of the carriers that fly for Amazon. Former pilots were sounding alarms even before Sunday's accident. -
Karl Mondon/AFP via Getty ImagesAs an Anthropic resignation and OpenAI agents' hack on Hugging Face capture public attention, some researchers worry the industry is racing too fast to develop powerful AI while safety measures lag.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders of the BRICS nations for a summit on trade, investment, and global conflicts. -
The documentary "NAZA," in which Israeli military insiders describe what they call the systemic killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, received a 25-minute standing ovation — the longest on record. -
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack. -
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet. -
Many Iranians lost their jobs because of the war and the U.S. blockade. Now some are even losing their backup jobs as sanctions tighten. -
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