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In Colorado River's Final Hundred Miles, Small Signs Of Life Return

LAGUNA GRANDE, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO — It’s mid-morning in the Sonoran desert and already the temperature is rising. Karen Schlatter suggests we find some shade, a relatively easy task at Laguna Grande, a restoration site along the Colorado River’s historic channel in Mexico. It’s managed by the Sonoran Institute, where Schlatter is associate director of the binational environmental group’s Colorado River Delta program.

RFTA's (New And Improved) Offseason Schedule Starts

Aspen Looks To Ban All Flavored Tobacco

Nation & World

Aspen Looks To Ban All Flavored Tobacco

By Zoë Rom • Apr 18, 2019

Most Aspen High School seniors have tried vaping, or using e-cigarettes, according to a survey. Teens throughout the Roaring Fork Valley vape at alarming rates, which are high for Colorado, which already has the highest rate of vaping in the U.S.

RFTA's (New And Improved) Offseason Schedule Starts

By Wyatt Orme • Apr 18, 2019

On Monday, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) returns to its off-season schedule. In the past, this has meant fewer buses and less service, but this year, it’s different.

Unlike previous offseasons, RFTA will run its express bus route, the BRT service, on weekends and the Carbondale Circulator bus will run seven days a week.

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Morning Newscast: April 18, 2019

By Zoë Rom • Apr 18, 2019

Morning newscast for Thursday, April 18.

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WATCH LIVE: Attorney General William Barr Press Conference About Mueller Report

By Tammy Terwelp • Apr 18, 2019

Attorney General William Barr delivers a press conference at the Justice Department ahead of the expected release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A redacted version of the report is expected to be released today.

The press conference is expected to begin at 7:30 a.m. If it is past the start time and the video hasn't started, please try refreshing your page.

Snowmass Wants To Boost Summer Tourism

By Zoë Rom • Apr 17, 2019

Snowmass Tourism wants to bring in more visitors during summer months.

At a meeting Thursday, Snowmass Market, Group Sales and Special Events Board will discuss previous years’ tourism data and strategies to attract future summer visitors.

Eagle County Commissioners Approve First Step For Blue Lake School

By Christin Kay • Apr 17, 2019

Eagle County Commissioners visited the site of a potential elementary or middle school in El Jebel earlier this week.

It’s the first step in a years-long process.

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Spring Snow Delays Trail Openings

By Zoë Rom • Apr 17, 2019

Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, www.fs.usda.gov

It’s been a snowy spring. While skiers have been thrilled, there is a downside.

This year’s snowpack peaked at 145 percent of average earlier this month. Now, that snowpack is melting, and that means it's mud season.

Morning Newscast: April 17, 2019

By Christin Kay • Apr 17, 2019

Morning newscast for Wednesday, April 17.

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Five Years Later, Effects Of Colorado River Pulse Flow Still Linger

By Luke Runyon • Apr 17, 2019

SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, MEXICO — From inside a small airplane, tracing the Colorado River along the Arizona-California border, it’s easy to see how it happened.

As the river bends and weaves through the American Southwest, its contents are slowly drained. Concrete canals send water to millions of people in Phoenix and Tucson, Los Angeles and San Diego. Farms, ribbons of green contrasted against the desert’s shades of brown, line the waterway.

Morning Newscast: April 16, 2019

By Christin Kay • Apr 16, 2019

Morning newscast for April 16, 2019.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Affordable Housing Project's Job Site Becomes Green-Building Classroom

By Christin Kay • Apr 15, 2019

Local contractors and architects can learn about affordable green building at an active construction site in Carbondale on Tuesday.

The ACES Urban Farmhouse is an affordable housing project for the organization’s environmental educators.

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First Draft: Cara Robertson

By Mitzi Rapkin • Apr 15, 2019

Cara Robertson is the author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden. Cara Robertson is a lawyer whose writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. She was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School.

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Week In The Arts: April 15 - 21, 2019

By Christin Kay • Apr 12, 2019

Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! This is Week in the Arts, a curated list of upcoming exhibitions and events.

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State News

Colorado's Government Watchdogs See Mixed Results At Capitol This Session

By Scott Franz • Apr 12, 2019

For Mitchell Byars and other breaking news reporters around the country, the police scanner might be just as important as a laptop computer.

Byars, who covers everything from wildfires to mountain lion sightings for the Boulder Daily Camera, said the radio traffic helps him answer important questions from residents.

Paid Family Leave Bill Moving Forward After Dozens Of Amendments

By Scott Franz • Apr 11, 2019

Colorado Democrats are backing a heavily-amended version of a bill to create a paid family leave program.

The bill stalled in the Senate Finance Committee last month over concerns from business leaders and some Democratic. But a series of 24 amendments have gotten some of the Democratic holdouts on board, and the committee voted along party lines to advance the proposal.