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The acclaimed Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Utah for the last time, this weekend, before it moves to Colorado. Many are feeling excited; some are ready to say goodbye.
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Janice RubinFiddler on the Roof is one of the most popular musicals ever. A new stage production in Boulder feels especially powerful in the wake of an anti-Semitic attack that happened in Boulder last summer. We hear from the Boulder rabbi who’s playing the lead role in the show’s final, sold-out performances this weekend. -
Jason Blevins/The Colorado SunLast fall, a search and rescue group solved a lingering mystery: They figured out what happened to a Colorado woman who went missing while hiking one of the state's highest peaks 20 years earlier. And the technology they used could help shape the future of search and rescue operations
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After weeks of planning for the worst, the Ouray Ice Park has ice to offer after all, just in time for the 31st Ice Festival this weekend. -
This is the legislature’s latest attempt to regulate the controversial sector that forms the backbone of daily digital life. -
The state’s snowpack, a vital water supply, is the worst on record for this time of year. Water managers expect to cling onto every last drop come summer. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Shannon Mullane and then read the entire article at the link below. -
Colorado voters along the Front Range could decide on whether to approve a new tax this year to help fund passenger rail service between Fort Collins and Pueblo. -
Lawmakers rejected a request to add hundreds of new prison beds, saying the state must first address staffing shortages and parole backlogs. -
The announcement from Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday came three months after the Trump administration blocked Colorado’s original plan to capture a second batch of wolves in British Columbia and fly them to the state.
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The U.S. Department of Education started to send notices of collection, which may include wage garnishment, to borrowers whose student loans have gone unpaid for more than nine months and are in default status. Employers can withhold up to 15% of disposable income, without a court order, from employees whose student loans are in default. -
Lawyers with a libertarian legal group allege a Wyoming city violated her constitutional rights when denying an animal permit. -
The National Park Service started free entry days in 2009. The selection and number of days have varied, but Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been on the list ever since 2011. -
New research highlights ways to make data center developers pay for adding demand to the power grid, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be accountable to the public. -
The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a development that came the same week that the U.S. Congress declined to fund it. -
The Interior Department’s secretarial order directs federal land managers to find places with unnecessary barriers to hunting and fishing and expand public access to outdoor recreation.
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