Bruce Raup
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University of Colorado
The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low mountain snow and record warm temperatures. Similar glacier loss has been observed in Europe and across the western United States.
Kevin J. Beaty
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Denverite
Kevin J. Beaty
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Denverite
Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Office
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Courtesy photoThe seven states in the Colorado River Basin are fighting a kind of Cold War over how to divvy up a shrinking water supply. And a new documentary shows just how personal the stakes can be for tribes, ranchers and others who live in the region. -
Courtesy Distortions UnlimitedAn unusual company in Greeley has been in the Halloween business for almost half a century. Distortions Unlimited creates uniquely detailed props and creatures for professional haunted houses, movies -- maybe even a yard near you.
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An Egyptian man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last spring. -
The Justice Department says its monitors will remain outside and at least 100 feet from voting centers on Election Day. -
Communities and officials are still assessing the damage ahead of another storm in the forecast for this weekend in southwestern Colorado -
Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a weekend hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains. The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office said late Wednesday that search and rescue volunteers found the bodies of Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon earlier in the day in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, where heavy snow fell last weekend. -
“I will absolutely open this up again because none of it sounds fair,” Marx said during a virtual interview organized by FoxTalk. -
Colorado’s most expensive ballot-measure showdown in the 2026 midterms is a series of fights over several questions with left- and right-leaning groups spending more than $14 million.
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Feds approve the state’s plan to regulate carbon capture projects -
These home visiting programs just saw an influx of federal money that could mean expanding to more families. -
They bought a triplex to have a community without having to share a kitchen: “We are punks, but we're also adults, and we need to have some personal space.” -
Atrazine contamination is most widespread in the Midwest, but affected watersheds extend into Colorado and New Mexico. -
Oil, gas and coal are rebounding under the Trump administration. In Wyoming, it's a big win for the fossil fuel industry. -
New research finds the Upper Colorado River Basin lost an estimated 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater during a severe drought, raising concerns about Western water supplies.
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