Emma VandenEinde
General Assignment ReporterI'm the General Assignment Reporter for KUNC, here to keep you up-to-date on news in your backyard. 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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This Northern Colorado HS is one of twelve schools to perform at the International Thespian FestivalFossil Ridge High School's theatre troupe in Fort Collins is one of twelve schools worldwide that’s been selected to perform at the International Thespian Festival Main Stage this summer. -
Colorado State University has a logging sports club, and some events directly transfer to skills needed for forestry jobs. That’s all the more crucial as the state looks for workers to help fight a massive pine beetle outbreak. -
The Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples recently accepted artifacts from officials at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. Most of the returned items are believed to be linked to burial sites. -
Over 160 breweries across the state have been working in teams to create craft brews for this weekend’s Collaboration Fest. Breweries said these local partnerships are fun and practical for growth. -
Winter can be a lonely time of year, especially in Colorado’s rural mountain communities. Some towns have few places to meet up. But a food pantry in Red Feather Lakes is becoming a community hub. -
Attorneys and workers' rights advocates shared their thoughts following federal penalties on three businesses for not protecting workers who died at a Northern Colorado dairy last year. -
It’s been one of the warmest winters Denver’s ever seen, setting a record for the most 60-degree days this winter. That’s triggered some early blooms at the Denver Botanic Gardens. -
Colorado's U.S. Senators are urging the International Olympic Committee to keep Nordic combined in future winter games and include women. Several Steamboat Springs athletes are the best in the world. -
Over the past few years, nearly 500 couples have chosen to renew their vows or say them for the first time as part of a special Valentine's Day wedding ceremony in Loveland. -
The cost of feeding and caring for our pets has dramatically increased. That's hard to stomach with Colorado's high cost of living. But the guilt of not caring for these animals remains.
