Join NPR’s Peter Sagal, host of public radio’s favorite game show Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, along with Aspen “celebrities” to judge this year’s storytellers on Monday, March 30, at the historic Wheeler Opera House for what’s sure to be another memorable night of oral storytelling!

Aspen Public Radio is pleased to announce the arrival of Sage Smiley as the station’s new host of All Things Considered, following the June 2025 promotion of Halle Zander to news director. When not on the air, Smiley will be supporting Aspen Public Radio’s three full-time reporters and three regularly contributing journalists as an associate editor and enterprising reporter in the newsroom.

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!