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Federal wildlife officials downlisted the razorback sucker to threatened status, but its life in Arizona rivers is still difficult.
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Caroline Llanes/Aspen Public RadioThe Hogback bus route will end in November if Silt and Garfield County do not agree to a new three-year plan. -
Hannah Weaver/Aspen Public RadioSince 2016, La Clínica del Pueblo in Carbondale has offered free and low-cost women’s health services to the Latino community. But it says there’s still inadequate access to mammograms. A new program aims to close that gap. -
Aspen Daily News fileThe Aspen Police Department will end its contract with Georgia-based Flock Safety after fielding concerns from the community about the controversial license plate readers. -
Kaya Williams/Aspen Public RadioFires burning on the Western Slope, along with dry conditions, caused the restrictions. Heritage Fire features live-fire cooking, and organizers decided to not take the risk.
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On today's newscast: The Aspen city council ends a controversial partnership with a surveillance company… The Trump administration sues Colorado for providing in state college tuition to some undocumented students… And the viral video of a bison launching a man in the air at Yellowstone National Park serves a reminder that wild animals can be dangerous.
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William Woody for CPR News/William Woody for CPR NewsNathan Matthews had been hospitalized since he was caught in a burnover on June 27. -
Vit Onopriienko/Adobe StockAs federal officials negotiate new rules for sharing the Colorado River's shrinking water supply, scientists are expanding efforts to better measure one of the basin's biggest sources of water loss: evaporation. -
Hanna Merzbach/Wyoming Public MediaMoney will go toward bolstering workforce education programs and supply chains, as well as helping nuclear companies commercialize reactors quickly. -
Brittany Peterson/APA new study found that human-caused warming increased the chances of snow conditions this severe.
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Allison Robbert/AP PhotosThe Senate Judiciary Committee had been expected to vote Thursday on whether to advance Todd Blanche's nomination. But resistance from two Republican senators threw his confirmation into doubt. -
Adrian Kraus/APA man was convicted of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel "The Satanic Verses." -
Koji Harada/Kyodo News via APTime was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday. -
Noel Celis/AFP/via Getty ImagesThe release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.
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Federal subsidies that have helped defray insurers' Medicare drug costs will disappear at the end of the year. Millions of beneficiaries could face higher premiums in 2027. -
Wildfires in central and eastern Oregon are prompting evacuations and forcing ranchers to scramble to move cattle and find feed as public range land burns. More than a million acres have burned so far. Most fires have little or no containment. -
The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China. -
The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again. -
Chitral borders Afghanistan and isn't easy to reach. Breathtaking views abound in this remote mountainous region — as do rockslides and avalanches. -
Glen Hansard, the Irish singer who won an Oscar for the musical movie Once and the led the bands The Frames and The Swell Season, died on Wednesday. He died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin.
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