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A Vail journalist discusses ‘the long-forgotten story of how we broke skiing — by very nearly saving it.’
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Regan Mertz/Aspen Public RadioArtnauts is an artist collective that works to draw attention to global issues through the visual arts. Despite originating in Colorado, the group usually shows internationally, and making a stateside appearance is rare. -
Sarah Tory/Aspen Public RadioRangelands cover 50 percent of the earth’s land surface, including much of the Roaring Fork Valley. But these ecosystems — a critical carbon sink — are under threat as climate change worsens. -
Sage Smiley/Aspen Public RadioCarbondale elected its first female mayor in ten years, about 100 people voted in Parachute’s first election in a decade, and New Castle’s town council will have a female majority for the first time since at least 2014. -
The three municipalities held elections for town council member, town trustee and mayoral seats on April 7, 2026.
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On today's newscast: Colorado Parks and Wildlife has a new plan focused on supporting beaver populations; in discussing the gender gap in art, one Aspen gallery is challenging a system where women remain underrepresented and undervalued; and a massive amount of water will likely have to be sent downstream this spring from reservoirs in the upper Colorado River basin to help save Lake Powell from drying up. Tune in for these stories and more.
Regional News
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McKenzie Lange/CPR NewsRepublican Rep. Brandi Bradley of Littleton called for the entire 650+ page budget bill to be read aloud, a roughly 15-hour ordeal that halted proceedings in the House this week. -
Allison Robbert/APBut win in other states in the midst of legal challenges -
Andy McMillan/U.S. Forest ServiceThe plan would consolidate research leadership — currently dispersed across the country — in Fort Collins, Colo., while closing laboratories in Montana, Utah and Nevada. -
Wyoming Game & Fish DepartmentThe grizzly was previously relocated from Montana to Wyoming to improve genetic connectivity. Now, she has reproduced.
NPR News
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Alex Brandon/APIn the order issued Monday, the judge wrote that President Trump had failed to make the argument that the article, which described a letter to Epstein that the newspaper said bore Trump's signature, was published with the intent to be malicious. -
Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump said the U.S. would interdict vessels that had to pay what he called an "illegal toll" to Iran to cross the Strait of Hormuz. -
Andrew Medichini/APPope Leo XIV says he will not be deterred by criticism from President Trump, vowing to continue his calls for peace as tensions escalate between the Vatican and Washington over the Iran conflict. -
Aaron SandelA long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."
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A stampede at a mountaintop fortress popular with tourists in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said. -
Thirty-five candidates are vying to become Peru's ninth president in 10 years. Electoral authorities extended the election by a day after failing to deliver ballots to voting centers on Sunday. -
President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV on Sunday night, saying he didn't think the U.S.-born global leader of the Catholic Church is "doing a very good job." -
The San Francisco Chronicle and CNN reported multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. Swalwell calls them false but apologized to his supporters and family. -
Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party. -
Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years.
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