I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS
I-News is the public service journalism arm of Rocky Mountain PBS and works in collaboration with news media throughout Colorado.
You can learn more about the I-News Network at www.inewsnetwork.org.
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One of every four motorists cited for drinking and driving in Colorado over the past two years was driving at the time without a valid license because it…
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Growing demand for intensive mental-health treatment in the state and a decline in the supply of psychiatric beds have put added pressure on emergency…
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Danielle Nordeen drives a 16-year-old Toyota Camry that doesn’t handle well on snowy mountain passes. In January, Nordeen had to make the drive from her…
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People with mental illnesses in Colorado are more than five times as likely to be housed in jails or in prisons than in hospital psychiatric beds.…
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Call them frequent flyers. Or superutilizers. Or loyal customers.In hospitals across the country, they’re known to doctors and nurses as the people who…
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It isn't too late to become involved in the broad statewide discussion on mental illness this weekend, with groups gathering in four cities to discuss…
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A raised red oval, a couple of inches in diameter, sits at the top of Alex Meredith’s forehead. It is the physical mark of a besieged mind.Meredith, who…
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Tom Sullivan knows the value of getting treatment for mental health problems. His son Alex was killed in the Aurora theater massacre in 2012, the victim…
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Almost three times a month, someone, likely a pedestrian, is killed in Colorado by a motorist who then flees the scene.Every day, at least one person in…
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A University of Colorado study concluding that certain birth defects are as much as 30 percent more common among mothers living near natural gas wells has…