Each week, listeners tune in to Aspen Public Radio to hear the news of the day, be informed, nourished, inspired, and entertained. Enjoying free access to fact-based news and information, civic dialogue, critical discourse, and the sharing of new ideas. Read all about it alongside all our successes of 2024, highlights from 2025, and commitments for the year ahead.

On October 1, 2025, Aspen Public Radio launched a campaign to raise $500,000, and thanks to the generosity of this community, as of December 31 we have raised $640,646 to keep Aspen Public Radio resilient, in service to this place we all love.

We’re teaming up with the Sopris Sun and Sol del Valle, Aspen Journalism, KDNK Community Radio, and the Aspen Daily News Journalism Fund to collaboratively raise awareness and support for local news during this Colorado Gives Day!

In May, Aspen Public Radio, KSUT Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and NPR filed suit to challenge President Trump’s unlawful executive order. On December 4, 2025, leaders from all three local stations appeared in the United States District Court in the District of Columbia for the hearing on their lawsuit.

Each week, over 18,000 radio listeners tune in to Aspen Public Radio to hear the news of the day –to be informed, nourished, inspired and entertained. This radio station is a critical public service, owned by this community, locally-staffed, editorially independent, and provided for free to everyone who lives, works, and comes to play in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys.

After more than fifty years of bipartisan Congressional support, today marks the first day nationwide without any federal funding for public media after the passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025. In response, Aspen Public Radio is announcing the launch of a Resiliency Fund to raise $500,000 by December 31.

We’ve launched the Fall 2025 Listener Survey to help us understand how we can best serve your news and information needs, and grow Aspen Public Radio as the leading public broadcast journalism service on Colorado’s western slope. Take the survey now!

Summer in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys is a magical experience we look forward to each and every year— and from Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1, listeners will unite to continue a long-standing tradition to support this community radio station: it’s time for the Summer Membership Drive!

The 2025 Aspen Security Forum will feature domestic and international government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists from around the world.

The station announced today it is expanding with the addition of a Climate Desk, which will be dedicated to providing accurate, accessible, and community-focused coverage of environmental and climate-related issues impacting the Roaring Fork Valley, the Colorado River Valley, and the broader Western Slope of Colorado.