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Parachute held a candidate forum March 10, 2026. The upcoming mayoral race is the town’s first contested election in a decade.
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Halle Zander/Aspen Public RadioCommissioners narrowly agreed to advance a substantially reduced request for a wildlife crossing study. The board will consider final approval of the funding on March 25. -
This voter guide includes up-to-date information about registering to vote, polling locations and what’s on the municipal ballots in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. -
Aspen Daily News fileThe Aspen City Council wants to take a new look at its development regulations in hopes of finding a way to nudge stalled projects along and minimize the amount of vacant buildings around town. -
Michael Fanelli/Aspen Public RadioA federal grant that funds the program will expire at the end of September, forcing the program to reduce its operations unless the county can find alternative sources of funding.
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On today's newscast: The two candidates running for mayor in Parachute offered their perspectives on the most important issue facing the town at a forum last week; REI Union workers are fighting for their first contract; and reliable high-speed internet is still out of reach for many tribal communities. Tune in for these stories and more.
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Mike McMillan/U.S. Forest ServiceHighschoolers across six BIE-run schools in South Dakota, Oklahoma, Montana and New Mexico are already participating, including Northwest High School in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation. -
The heat wave comes in the midst of an already challenging winter for the Rocky Mountains, compounding months of warm and dry conditions.
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Rachel Cohen/KUNCThe city used to auction off surplus animals to ranchers. But six years ago, it started donating them to tribes instead. More than 170 animals have been gifted so far. -
NOAA/nClimGrid-MonthlySome cities nearing 100 degrees
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AFP via Getty Images/AFPIsrael says it killed Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, the highest-profile assassinations since the targeting of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war. -
Michael Steele/Getty ImagesWorld Cup tickets are expensive, and buying them has been frustrating and confusing. But this is what economics is for: figuring out the best ways to allocate scarce resources. FIFA, steal these ideas. -
Nathan Rott/NPRSeawalls are great at protecting property and people. A new nature-inspired seawall add-on is trying to make them better at protecting marine wildlife too. -
Sunnu Rebecca Choi for NPRIf you get a high reading at the doctor's office, it may not be definitive. Here's what to know about your risk — and testing your blood pressure at home.
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The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses. -
Title X is a 56-year-old federal grant program that supports thousands of clinics that provide birth control and STI testing and treatment. Those clinics could face a funding gap because of a Trump administration delay. -
Spain's Prime Minister called U.S. strikes against Iran "unjustified." When other foreigners in power have used similar language against the U.S. or Israel, they were sanctioned by the Treasury. -
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. -
The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools. -
Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital with an airstrike, marking a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month. Pakistan has dismissed the accusation.
Join NPR’s Peter Sagal, host of Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, to judge this year’s storytellers on Monday, March 30, at the historic Wheeler Opera House for what’s sure to be another memorable night of oral storytelling!
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