Eight Colorado State University students are graduating after some rocky years of couch surfing and being unhoused. They relied on subsidized housing through a local nonprofit to make it through.
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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States that rely on water from the Colorado River are on a deadline to come up with a plan for how the river should be managed. And with climate change rapidly shrinking the river's water supply, the pressure is on. But finding consensus won't be easy. KUNC's Alex Hager explains what's being proposed, and why the states can't agree, on today's In The NoCo.
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Colorado Mountain College has a new president. Today on In The NoCo, Matt Gianneschi discusses the unique role the college plays in Colorado's mountain communities, how they're working to address the difficulties posed by the high cost of housing there, and his advice for this year's graduating class.
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Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature has nixed a bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms. The Colorado House passed the ban in a historic vote this year after roughly the same proposal was swiftly nixed last year.
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Lawmakers have until Wednesday night to pass dozens of pending bills around housing, transportation, and substance use. They also are pushing through late-session deals on property taxes and air quality legislation in order avoid costly fights at the ballot box in November.
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Pfizer recently announced plans to shut down its Boulder operations, but the life sciences industry is seeing the biopharmaceutical giant's departure as an opportunity.
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Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation last week that commits millions in state funding to several higher education projects intended to boost Colorado's healthcare workforce. Among them is the University of Northern Colorado, which is getting $127 million towards a new college of osteopathic medicine.
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Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, has fired a Colorado-based auditor that federal regulators recently charged with "massive fraud."
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Cannabis has been legal in several Mountain West states, such as Colorado and Nevada, for years. But while legal cannabis shops are a familiar sight, some places are creating new ways for people to consume marijuana in public — enter the cannabis lounge.
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Some states, such as Texas and Florida, have banned protections for workers toiling in high heat. But in the West, establishing standards and procedures for extreme heat days is a priority, and not just for those who have to work outside.
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More than 10 million U.S. homes sit within three miles of a solar farm. A new national survey looks into how people feel about having these large renewable energy projects as their neighbors.
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New maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) show the migration routes of several big game herds across the West.
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In annual reports sent to Dark Sky International, Utah’s national and state parks list light pollution from development and tourism as the main threat to maintaining their certification.
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