Leigh Paterson

Colleges and universities across Colorado are bracing for a steep dropoff in student enrollment over the next few years. The looming decline adds pressure to an already-challenging environment for higher education. We hear what's driving the decline, and how education leaders are planning to adapt.

The federal government just issued a new plan for states to share water from the Colorado River. So far, Colorado is spared from the steepest cuts. But some experts are skeptical that the plan does enough to help solve the river’s ongoing issues. We get details on the proposal.

Have you ever gotten mail addressed to a strange business, instead of to you? Thousands of Colorado residents have reported their addresses are being used to register fake companies.

Following a warm, dry winter, Colorado is now in wildfire season. Multiple major blazes across the state are prompting evacuations, road closures and filling the air with smoke.

When the Sundance Film Festival comes to Boulder in January, scores of out-of-state visitors are expected to descend on the city. Many of those studio executives, actors, directors and fans will need somewhere to stay.

A new play being staged in Longmont and Boulder tells a powerful story about the displacement of Black families to make way for the expansion of a university. It’s based on real events in Indianapolis in the 1950s. We hear from the Boulder resident who wrote the play about why he wanted to tell this story.

State lawmakers asked every school district in Colorado to create a policy around student cell phone use. And some have responded by banning mobile devices for the entire school day to cut down on distractions in the classroom and promote better mental health for kids.

We dig into the amount of energy that large data centers consume, and why Longmont leaders passed the new ordinance.

Early in the Iraq War, Tom Mowle was a political science professor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He answered a call from military leaders for strategic advice – and found himself living on a base in Iraq in 2004. Tom talks about the hard lessons from Iraq that he writes about in his new book – and how leaders might apply those lessons to the current conflict with Iran.

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder have faced months of uncertainty. That’s because the Trump administration has worked to dismantle NCAR, a hub of climate and weather research. But last week, a federal judge handed NCAR supporters a big victory – though it’s a temporary one. We dig into the judge’s decision.