The Denver Art Museum will open a new exhibit Sunday that highlights the transformative power of nature through art and design.
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Saturday is May the 4th – also known to fans as Star Wars Day. To celebrate, we sit down to talk with Connie Willis, one of science fiction's most notable writers, who happens to live here in Northern Colorado. She shares her thoughts on our weird obsession with UFOs... and on why it's so important to contemplate the future.
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Colorado is one of the first states to employ an incarcerated professor. David Carillo has been released after being granted clemency – and today on In The NoCo, we hear about why he still plans to continue educating students who are behind prison walls.
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Prosecutors say a Colorado school bus aide shown on surveillance video hitting a nonverbal autistic boy has been charged with 10 more counts of abuse involving two children.
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Gov. Jared Polis and top Democrats announced an agreement with the fossil fuel industry and environmental advocates to avert a ballot box fight in November. As part of the deal, lawmakers scrapped more aggressive regulatory proposals in place of two new bills, with just days left in the legislative session.
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Five of the eight cities and counties serving on the so-called community noise roundtable have hit eject, citing a lack of progress and trust in the airport's owner, Jefferson County. The turbulence had been building for months.
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A group of tribes that use Colorado River water sent a list of principles to the federal government amid contentious talks about how to share the shrinking supply.
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Democratic state lawmakers struck a deal with Gov. Jared Polis earlier this week that could make big changes to how TABOR, or the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, is managed. The agreement protects two pending bills that would create a new tax write-off for families and expand the state credit for low-income earners. The Colorado Sun editor David Krause joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this story.
Mountain West News
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Roughly half a million dairy calves were transported from seven states in the upper U.S. to calf-rearing operations in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas in 2022, according to an investigation conducted by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), creating potential health risks for animals and people.
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The agency says the new rule puts conservation on equal footing with other uses of public lands, like ranching and mining.
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Freedom Caucus lawmakers single out annual Laramie Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser for HIV, AIDS testingA drag show bingo event in Laramie has been happening annually for years. It raises money for AIDS and HIV testing in Wyoming, and to support those living with the virus. Recently, however, it’s come under fire from ultraconservative state legislators.
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With the habitat shrinking for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, fish and wildlife officials are working to return the fish to a river in the Mountain West.
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A coalition of Western conservationists and tribes are working to protect more public lands before the November presidential election.
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