KUNC Site Search

Cary Morin has been part of the Northern Colorado music scene since he moved from Montana in the early 1980s. He visited a music display featuring one of his guitars, a black Fender electric, at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery on November 30, 2023.

'Native Americana' singer-songwriter Cary Morin brings the Old West to life with new album

Images of the Old West conjure a certain wild feeling that Indigenous singer-songwriter Cary Morin captures with his new album. Today on In The NoCo, the local singer-songwriter tells us more.

Getting to the promised land: How former state lawmaker Wilma Webb created MLK Day in Colorado

Amid the ongoing battle for racial justice, MLK Day, celebrated on Monday, gives us a moment to see where we’re going and what we still need to do. Today on In The NoCo, we hear from former state lawmaker Wilma Webb, who fought for years to bring MLK Day to Colorado.

Lessons from ‘The Green Rush’ with the Denver Post’s first cannabis editor Ricardo Baca

We cut through the haze and smoke of 10 years of recreational marijuana with the Post's first pot scribe.

Humans are hard-wired to adapt. But adapting to climate change can be a thorny pursuit

We’re still learning how to live with the effects of a changing climate. In his new book, Colorado journalist Stephen Robert Miller investigates our need to adapt and how some of those attempts are backfiring. He joins In The NoCo to tell us more.

Omar Gomez wears a reflective orange vest for the four-day march from Denver to Greeley. Members of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition walked 60 miles last week to raise awareness about the so-called registry bill. It would update a decades-old federal law, creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of longtime immigrants in the U.S. Local advocates are pushing for U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo and Sens. Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper to support the measure.

When activism is personal, spiritual: Immigration advocates on their 60-mile march from Denver to Greeley

Immigration advocates just did a four-day, 60-mile march to raise awareness about a bill that would help millions of longtime immigrants in the U.S. become citizens. We hear from them today on In The NoCo.

A poster for I Matter, the state's free youth mental health program, hang in the main lobby of Summit High School in Breckenridge. Mental health and physical illness are two of the top reasons why students here miss school.

Many Colorado students are chronically absent. KUNC’s Leigh Paterson hit the hallways to study solutions

Students who miss 10% of school days are known as chronically absent. The problem can lead kids down a precarious path and it’s a big issue in Colorado. Reporter and senior editor Leigh Paterson tells us what some schools are doing about it.

Opera Colorado's sold-out May 2023 performance of "Turandot."

New union gives Opera Colorado workers off-stage power and presence

Behind the elegant voices, opera singers have been fighting for the same rights that workers across the state are demanding. Today on In The NoCo, we learn about workers at Opera Colorado and their hard-fought battle to unionize.

Zach Hedstrom, founder of Boulder Mushroom, bends down and digs through the dirt on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in northwest Boulder in front of some of the county's forestry experts. This acre was inoculated with the saprophytic fungi and is already starting to show signs of decomposition from cut-up wood chip pieces to healthy soil, and mycelium fibers -- like white dots and strings -- are starting to form.

Fungi firefighters? A Boulder mushroom company’s solution to wildfires is quintessentially Colorado

Wildfire mitigation has big financial and environmental costs. KUNC's Emma VandenEinde says an ecological alternative is sprouting in Boulder.

A multicolor mural on a brick building shows a woman's face in the center with a couple other female faces on either side of her.

‘Healer of the sick:’ Dr. Justina Ford, Colorado’s first Black female physician, saw her work as a true calling

Pioneering Black physician Dr. Justina Ford treated patients in her home office in Five Points regardless of their ability to pay. Ahead of her birthday next week, In The NoCo unpacks her life and legacy.

Amoako Boafo's "Reflection 1" is among the works hanging as part of Boafo's show at the Denver Art Museum.

From Ghana to Denver, artist Amoako Boafo uplifts Black joy and carves new paths for burgeoning artists

An exhibit hanging at the Denver Art Museum, "Soul of Black Folks," is a powerful look at cultural identity through the lens of West African artist Amoako Boafo. He joins In the NoCo today from Ghana.

Search results for