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Vieux Farka Touré helped introduce Malian music to the U.S. He's back with album 6

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

KUNC's Colorado Edition: Guns, A Hanky Mystery, The Future Of I-25

In this week's Colorado Edition, we follow hundreds of high school students dismayed by the Parkland shootings in Florida. There was a huge walkout in…

Pastry chef Aggie Chin shares her recipes for a dinner party dessert, a citrus pavlova cake, and festive drink of pink champagne and a dollop of grapefruit sorbet.

Desserts To Help Ring In The New Year

Pastry chef Aggie Chin talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about desserts for your New Year's Eve party. This week, it's citrus pavlova cake.

This exhibit from video released by the House Jan. 6 select committee shows then-President Donald Trump recording a video statement on the afternoon of Jan. 6 from the White House Rose Garden.

Trump didn't act and didn't want to, plus 4 other takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearings

The committee, across eight hearings, has built a case — more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases he'll run in 2024, is not fit to hold the office.

This is an image of two rows of fir tree saplings along a wooden fence, covered in snow and in drifts of snow.

Want to cut your own Christmas tree? Here's how to get a permit and plan ahead

Getting a permit to cut your own Christmas tree is easy. Strapping it to the top of your car and getting it home may not be. But you'll have fun!

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill Monday.

Rep. Liz Cheney read text messages she said Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege

In the messages, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity urge Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

"I've oftentimes been the only woman in a big band, the only woman backstage, the only woman in a studio; but I'm happy to say, I think that is changing," says musician, producer and artist manager Briana Harris. She's a participant in Project Traction, a new nonprofit that aims to boost the number of women and nonbinary people in production roles in the music industry.

Women hold a fraction of music industry jobs. A new program seeks to change that

Data shows just a small fraction of people in the music industry are women, especially in studio jobs like audio production. A new nonprofit aims to change that – and their newest venture is focused on Northern Colorado artists. On In The NoCo, we talk with local musician Briana Harris about the project, and why it matters.

A proposed drilling project in Weld County would bore five miles under the town of Erie. It has the town's residents enraged and the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission recently stepped in to put a stay on the project. Extraction Oil & Gas — the company proposing the project — must now investigate a second possible site before a decision is made.

How Erie residents pushed back against a drilling project that would have reached 5 miles beneath the town

A proposed drilling pad near Erie would bore 5 miles underneath the town. In a recent hearing, residents expressed their outrage at a project that could endanger their health and their town’s wellbeing. The state stepped in and postponed the project... but residents still don’t know what will happen. KUNC’s Rae Solomon spoke about this controversy on today’s In the NoCo.

This photo shows John Ingold, a health care reporter for The Colorado Sun, wearing a light blue button-down shirt and smiling for the camera with a white background behind him.

Yes, Colorado has three different lab testing scandals. Here’s what you need to know

Colorado officials in recent months have investigated three different scandals involving problems with laboratory tests. Two of them involve monitoring for water contamination, and one involved tainted DNA tests in criminal cases. So how concerned should Colorado residents be? We dig into what’s happening, today on In The NoCo.

A woman and three men, all engineers from the Colorado School of Mines and Orbital Mining Corporation, work on a prototype of an electrical grid being developed to power infrastructure on the surface of the moon.

An electrical grid on the moon? Colorado School of Mines students work with NASA to make it possible

Humans living on the moon may be far off in the future. But the ability to provide power to that lunar colony is at least one step closer to reality, after two researchers from the Colorado School of Mines developed a working prototype of an electrical grid that can survive the harsh conditions on the moon. We’ll hear how it works on today's In The NoCo.

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