A new report highlights the risks of extreme heat specific to rural areas.
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Being stopped by the police can be stressful. And for people with conditions like autism spectrum disorder or Tourette’s syndrome, the encounter can be especially tense. The Blue Envelope program uses a simple tool to help people with disabilities feel safer in an encounter.
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Millions of years ago a species of dinosaur performed mating rituals that looked a lot like dancing. And scientists say Colorado is home to one of the largest areas where those dances took place.
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Under the new law, soon if you buy a gas stove in Colorado, it’s going to come with a warning label urging consumers to be informed.
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The thread was sparked by a photo that was later posted to social media, unleashing online harassment.
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Lawmakers will return to the Capitol on Aug. 21 mainly to deal with the effects of the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,' congressional Republicans’ federal tax and spending measure. They’ll also debate what to do about Colorado’s first-in-the-nation law, which is set to take effect in February.
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Gov. Jared Polis wants Colorado to fast-track deployment of new clean energy projects before Republicans' rollback of billions of dollars in incentives takes effect.
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In the last two years, the state has shifted most of its grant funding in its Persons Who Wander Program to a new technology that’s bringing more buzz, along with some concerns about privacy rights and the reactive nature of the devices.
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The Larimer County Fair provides a fun learning opportunity to those involved in 4-H while promoting the importance of agriculture in Northern Colorado.
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The decision doesn’t change the status of wolves, but it forces the agency to revisit the question of whether they should be federally protected, including in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
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Researchers are working on the largest study of hail in the U.S. in 40 years.
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As U.S. immigration policy tightens, new data suggests that Canada may be the next destination for refugees in the Americas.
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Montana is home to the first agreement of its kind in the nation.
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Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land management records and fire emissions data, a team of researchers has put hard numbers to those impacts.
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For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, California tribes have opened the door to a new era of cultural burning - a potential model for the rest of the West.
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