Nationwide, since 2024, there’s been a surge of borrowers who have missed nine months of payments, with many more borrowers at risk of ending up in the same spot. The consequences of falling behind can disrupt lives, ruin credit ratings, and mean the debt could be sent to collections.Listen to KUNC host Marty Lenz discuss this story and then read the entire article.

The pardons come three months after the governor commuted the sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters. More pardons and commutations are still possible in Polis’ final year.

Dolly Parton, the beloved queen of country and cultural sensation who had an impact on so many, passed away earlier this week. KUNC's Marty Lenz spoke with a local who was closely connected to Parton for many years. David Grapes II is a professor of theater and director of the School of Theater and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado. He spent more than a decade at Dollywood, Parton's acclaimed theme park and resort.

The late-summer surge of bear sightings continues across Colorado, with the most recent involving a cub in Boulder County that needed rescue.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting.

Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ and its impact on the Colorado River.

Candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties get most of the votes and the attention, but dozens of independent and third-party candidates will be running for offices up and down the ballot in Colorado this fall.

Plenty of longtime educators and experts are skeptical about whether the tests are useful or even accurate. Listen to KUNC host Marty Lenz discuss this story and then read the entire article.

Since her sentence was cut short, Peters has toured conspiracy conferences, stood with Trump in the Oval Office and drawn interest from a California elections office.

Backers of the amendment, currently known as Initiative 302, gathered enough signatures to land on the ballot, the secretary of state’s office announced last week.