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Most Americans only know some of their neighbors. Others know none. The Neighborhood Village Project aims to unite communities by training people to host events and create intentional connections.
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KUNC’s In The NoCo is a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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John Eisele/Colorado State University PhotographA 'Goldilocks foot' designed by CSU students could offer new options for people who wear prostheticsStudents at Colorado State University have designed an innovative prosthetic foot. The design uses 3D printing technology that allows them to customize each prosthetic they make for the person who will wear it. Hear the story of the CSU engineering students who created the award-winning design. -
Photo of R.L. Maizes by Steve OlshanskyA struggling novelist sets off a social media firestorm in a new novel by Colorado author R.L. Maizes. "A Complete Fiction" raises sticky questions about who gets to tell someone else’s story. We talk with the author about how her own social media obsessions inspired the book.
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A federal court has paused a Colorado law that requires social media companies warn young users about the potential harms of being on their sites. -
That will come as welcome news to the 600,000 Coloradans, half of whom are children, who rely on SNAP funding to help buy groceries each month. -
Coloradans pay more than most Americans for their car insurance, according to Gov. Polis. -
The resounding victory of Prop. 50 in California, Tuesday opened a new front in the state-by-state war over partisan redistricting. -
Airlines will likely keep their major routes but cut regional flights. -
A lack of early-season snow isn’t great for the state’s water supply. But it can have a surprising benefit in the mountains.
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The Trump Administration is using revenue from recreation fees to keep bathrooms clean and trash tidy at national parks during the shutdown. But parks are not charging fees at this time. -
The American West has seen the number of structures lost in wildfires more than triple in recent decades. But new research shows that home hardening measures can significantly increase a home’s chances of survivability during a wildfire. -
That means stepping over private land access public land remains legal in some states, including Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. -
Zombie trees may look alive but are in the process of demise weakening them and increasing risks to people and property -
A new data center campus is currently under construction in Elyria-Swansea — a neighborhood already struggling with pollution from major highways and Colorado’s only oil and gas refinery. -
A proposal to build one of the largest solar projects in the U.S. has been abruptly halted by the Trump administration — a move critics say undermines the nation’s renewable energy transition.
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