Today, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss cited the First Amendment when he ruled in favor of Aspen Public Radio, KSUT Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio and NPR, and agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing Executive Order 14290.

It is listeners who have supported this radio station for 45 years, stepping up even more now to replace lost federal funding, and who we are turning to during this on-air membership drive for the ongoing support Aspen Public Radio needs during this Spring Membership Drive.

Today is Rural Voices Day. In the wake of massive funding cuts to public media, this new annual event aims to rally stations across the country, alongside their audiences and elected officials, to celebrate the services public radio stations provide to rural America.

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.