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On today's newscast: Aspen City Council has tentatively agreed to expand funding for arts and culture grants next year, Garfield County has approved plans for a 90-acre solar array south of Parachute, ranchers and farmers in our region are seeing their costs rise, the Reno Rodeo has launched a new program to connect with Spanish-speaking communities, renowned soprano Renee Fleming talks about the slow return to normal at the Aspen Music Festival, and more.

In today's newscast, local election results are in for Carbondale, New Castle and Silt, the Aspen School District is looking at ways to address its staff turnover rate and improve equity and inclusion efforts, the Aspen Highlands Ski Patrol is hosting the 50th Colorado Pro-Patrol Convention today, a conversation with Pitkin County’s director of community development Cindy Houben who is retiring in July, and more.

On today's newscast: “Squirm Night” for Pitkin County commissioner and sheriff candidates is tonight, state and local candidates representing Garfield County faced off last night, the Roaring Fork School District is working with the state to turn its test scores around, a tribe in our region is suing county officials over unequal voting opportunities, and more.

On today's newscast: a new affordable housing project is underway in Glenwood Springs, the number of daily new COVID cases dropped sharply in Pitkin County this week, state lawmakers are on the verge of passing a bill to address a spike in fentanyl overdoses, cities in the West are mapping snow by plane to refine their water forecasts, mobile home park residents in Durango found a creative way to keep their homes when the property went up for sale, and more.

On today's newscast: another person was airlifted out of the Capitol Peak area yesterday, heat waves across the West are likely to continue through the week, candidates in the CD3 and HD57 races will be facing off in a livestreamed debate in Grand Junction on Saturday, improved broadband is coming to residents in unincorporated Eagle County, a new mental health hotline for farmers and ranchers is being piloted in Wyoming, the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival saw about 9,000 each night, and more.

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