Halle Zander
Reporter/HostBorn and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Halle grew up among the Appalachian mountains. She traveled to California to study environmental analysis at Pitzer College and then moved to Colorado.
She's been an educator at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and at the Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment program, where she taught youth radio and managed a weekly public affairs show. She was a freelance broadcast journalist for both KDNK and Aspen Public Radio before joining the APR staff full-time in September 2021.
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On Jan. 11, 1947, state and local politicians gathered to celebrate the first season of lift-served skiing on Aspen Mountain. And last Tuesday, a crowd at Willoughby Park formed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of that celebration. Photos from the event are posted here for the historical record. -
Fatima Flores, a junior at Aspen High School, stayed home Dec. 17 after nationwide threats of school shootings on TikTok put her family on alert.
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Team Gleason and Challenge Aspen bring North Carolina resident Asia Jami, who has ALS, to Snowmass to learn how to ski.
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Carollo Engineers' integrated water resource plan, which accounts for the effects of climate change and an increased population in Aspen, was presented to the City Council on Monday. Aspen Public Radio reporter Halle Zander sat down with Aspen Journalism’s managing editor, Heather Sackett, to discuss details of this plan.
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Children ages 5-11 lined up to receive their first of two COVID-19 shots 10 days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved pediatric doses.
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Commissioners heard presentations from Aspen Skiing Co. employees during the second reading of the Pandora’s proposal, which would add 153 new acres of lift-served ski terrain to the upper east side of Aspen Mountain. Commissioners will cast their final votes on the proposal on Nov. 18.
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Predictions from forestry experts show that local forests might change dramatically as beetle populations grow and as climate change worsens.
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Three seats are open on the Aspen School District board. Election Day is Nov. 2.
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Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism's water reporter, talks about an alternative "demand management" plan from the Colorado River Water Conservation District that was developed in response to a state plan emerging from the Colorado Water Conservation Board..
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Founder of Discovery Cafe hopes to expand his recovery program into Glenwood Springs
