Emma VandenEinde
General Assignment Reporter and Back-up HostI'm the General Assignment Reporter and Back-Up Host for KUNC, here to keep you up-to-date on news in your backyard — whether I'm out in the field or sitting in the host chair. Each town throughout Northern Colorado contains detailed stories about its citizens and their challenges, and I love sitting with members of the community and hearing what they have to say.
I was formerly KUNC's Reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau — a regional reporting collaboration between several NPR-affiliate stations across the West. Before coming to Colorado, I worked for Arizona PBS and KJZZ, the NPR-affiliate station in Arizona — so public media is running through my veins.
My sound-rich spot work on the Great American Beer Fest recently won first place at the 2025 PMJA Awards. The feature I contributed to our Unseen But Everywhere series about housing insecurity and education among Colorado youth won top honors at the 2025 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the 2025 Colorado Broadcasters Association Awards and the Top Of The Rockies Awards hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists. I've also been recognized at the National Hearst Championship and the BEA Festival of Media Arts.
When I’m not reporting on your stories, you can find me sinking a disc golf putt, sipping my second cup of black tea or handmaking my own greeting cards.
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Loveland leaders have called for an emergency council meeting Thursday following the closure of the South Railroad Facility. There’s been community pushback on the city’s decision to shut it down. -
Fort Collins Rescue Mission is starting work on a Homeless Resolution Center that will have 250 shelter beds and daytime services. It will take about a year to complete. Meanwhile, other overnight shelter options in Northern Colorado are dwindling. -
President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum, as well as increased immigration enforcement, are having ripple effects in the state’s construction industry. -
History Colorado is getting into the spooky season a bit early by presenting its most unusual artifacts — from poison to clown dolls — for its second-annual Creeporado event. -
Boulder is in the process of updating its Comprehensive Plan, which shapes city development for the next two decades. City leaders are asking the community to voice their opinions in a creative way. -
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office confirms at least two students were shot on Wednesday. -
Forty-eight members of Boulder’s Community Assembly met this weekend and took a hands-on approach to create a neighborhood where essentials are less than a 15 minute walk away. -
Those fast planes diving over fields in Northern Colorado are crucial for taking care of crops. But a different type of agricultural aircraft is slowly, but surely, taking to the skies. -
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies has tracked migrating birds at a banding station at Barr Lake State Park for decades to understand their annual life cycle and habits — before it's too late. -
Boulder Police have been using a new program for nearly eight months that helps people with disabilities communicate their accommodations with police. Some residents feel much safer because of it.
