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Melissa Strong was a rock climber about to open a restaurant in Estes Park, when a devastating accident left her hands badly damaged. The months that followed were filled with pain and uncertainty as doctors worked to help her regain use of her hands. Today, she can climb again – and she credits rock climbing with giving her the tenacity to bounce back.
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A thundercloud in the sky over Denver, Colorado, shots lightning bolts. But instead of rain, question marks fall from the cloud.
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Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteColorado voters comb through a glut of ballot questions during election season. How did we get here?Colorado is one of two dozen states where residents can collect signatures to put questions directly onto ballots. But some political observers worry that the cost of gathering those signatures puts special interest groups with deep funding ahead of grassroots organizations. -
Courtesy of Robert Madden / Colorado State UniversityA new study by an archaeologist at Colorado State University looked at dice first used by Native American hunter-gatherers more than 12,000 years ago. The games were a way for tribes to connect with each other and trade goods, even without speaking the same language.
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Dolly Parton, the beloved queen of country and cultural sensation who had an impact on so many, passed away earlier this week. KUNC's Marty Lenz spoke with a local who was closely connected to Parton for many years. David Grapes II is a professor of theater and director of the School of Theater and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado. He spent more than a decade at Dollywood, Parton's acclaimed theme park and resort. -
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting. -
Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ and its impact on the Colorado River. -
Candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties get most of the votes and the attention, but dozens of independent and third-party candidates will be running for offices up and down the ballot in Colorado this fall. -
Plenty of longtime educators and experts are skeptical about whether the tests are useful or even accurate. Listen to KUNC host Marty Lenz discuss this story and then read the entire article. -
Since her sentence was cut short, Peters has toured conspiracy conferences, stood with Trump in the Oval Office and drawn interest from a California elections office.
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Nevada filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump Administration's new rules drastically cutting the state's access to the Colorado River. -
The Trump administration is revising the Travel Management Rule, a U.S. Forest Service policy that dictates when motorized use is allowed. -
Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property. -
Colorado River plan orders cuts in the Lower Basin, while relying on voluntary conservation upstreamColorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming are not subject to mandatory reductions; instead, those states are setting up programs to voluntarily conserve water. -
The federal decision, which imposes steep cuts on California, Arizona and Nevada, can now be challenged in court. -
The federal government will cut back on the amount of water for Arizona, California and Nevada after years of negotiations. They will hit cities in the Phoenix and Tucson areas the hardest.
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