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The money will help High Rockies Harm Reduction purchase new vehicles and reach more drug users in the region.

Inflation and the end of COVID-19 federal support triggered an increase in the number of people the Food Bank of the Rockies served in 2023. Sue Ellen Rodwick, director of Food Bank of the Rockies’ Western Slope Distribution Center, spoke with Arts & Culture Reporter Regan Mertz to discuss services on the Western Slope, which has more food insecurity than the rest of the state.

Verizon Wireless is set to boost cell coverage in midvalley areas as Pitkin County advances a lease for a tower expansion at its Crown Communications site. A 10-foot tower extension and generator will support Verizon service, with installation possibly starting this fall or next spring.

The founder and president of Wyoming’s only procedural abortion clinic, Julie Burkhart, spoke with Aspen Public Radio about why she’s focused on increasing access to abortion in underserved places.

With two Roaring Fork Valley mobile home parks under contract, partners are moving through a 45-day due diligence period for inspections. Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley mobile home parks have raised approximately $14 million toward their $20 million goal for the collective $42 million asking price.

Evacuations have been lifted for the Coulter Creek Fire in the Missouri Heights area. Roads have also reopened.

After more than two decades as an artist, Titus Kaphar has seen art history professors and institutions neglect Black art and culture. He visited Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village last month to speak as this year’s Ranch Week Honoree.

For the first time since the 1940s, new aspens have joined the forest canopy in Yellowstone National Park. Researchers say that wouldn’t have happened without wolves.

The Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have claimed federal immigration crackdowns are targeting dangerous criminals, but this year’s ICE arrest data for the Rocky Mountain region indicates otherwise. Reporters from The Colorado Sun shared their findings Wednesday after publishing an analysis of regional data in July.

Aspen Journalism and Aspen Sojourner revived a decade-old project this summer, documenting 80 property owners in Pitkin County whose net worth exceeded $1 billion.