Water experts are calling for urgent changes at Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as a dry winter could send reservoir levels dangerously low.
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Traditional forms of therapy don’t work for everyone. Carbondale-based nonprofit WindWalkers offers horse-assisted services to fill that gap. This story is part of our “On the Ground” radio series, which highlights solutions to local and global issues from Roaring Fork and Colorado River valley organizations.
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Healthcare workers use resource directories to direct people to the help they need. Now, the nonprofit West Mountain Regional Health Alliance has one for a range of Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle Counties’ organizations. This story is part of our “On the Ground” radio series that highlights solutions to local and global issues from Roaring Fork and Colorado River valley organizations.
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Through monologues, songs and shadow puppets, six performers explored what it means to be a woman at the Women’s VOICES theater project last weekend.
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As outside investors buy up mobile home parks, a coalition of local residents, nonprofits, governments and private donors are rallying together to inform state laws and regional strategies to preserve these communities as affordable housing.
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On today's newscast: The two candidates for Garfield County Sheriff will be facing off in a debate in Rifle tomorrow night; Colorado high schoolers are graduating at higher rates, but a growing number are leaving the state for college; and a new interactive map reveals the hidden health risks of living near oil refineries. Tune in for these stories and more.
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A team of researchers at Arizona State University is building models to track the amount of water in snow, soils and streams.
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One bill was focused on social media platforms and collaboration with law enforcement while the other was concerned with automated driving.
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Many visitors objected to what they saw as an attempt to downplay difficult chapters of American history.
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Tina Peters, convicted on several counts and sentenced to nearly nine years in prison, was released early after Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence.
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The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here"
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Republicans and Democrats all compete together in the unusual primary to set the one-on-one race in November. Two Democrats and one Republican were in close contention.
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The U.S. military said that Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the U.S. launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response.
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Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Peabo Bryson has died at 75. He was known for his Disney duets "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World." He died Tuesday after having a stroke.
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Once one of the most dependent on the Colorado River, San Diego now may have water to sell to states that are seeing their supplies from the shrinking river cut.
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Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek will face Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson in the Senate race. For governor, Democrat state Auditor Rob Sand and Republican businessman Zach Lahn move on to November.
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The ruling means that Alabama's 2026 midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and one Democratic-leaning one.
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The author is known for genre-bending stories that span Southern gothic, horror and fairy tale.
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The disgraced former congressman allegedly bet on whether he would appear at the State of the Union address, prompting federal investigations.
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Russian missile and drone attacks killed civilians across Ukraine overnight, in one of Moscow's largest assaults in recent months.
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