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Workers at the Rocky Flats plant northwest of Denver helped build nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The plant is gone and the land is now a wildlife refuge. A new documentary looks at the controversial history of Rocky Flats, and the memories of its employees. We talk with the director, on today’s In The NoCo.

Hearing about students’ problems can have a harsh impact on teachers. That’s a key takeaway from new study by the University of Northern Colorado. It found that a majority of teachers deal with what’s called secondary traumatic stress. Today on In The NoCo: what the research tells us, and how this issue may lead to teachers quitting the profession.

Lawmakers at the state capitol hope a new bill can reduce the number of deaths by suicide with a firearm. The measure would allow someone who’s concerned about their mental health to put a voluntary freeze on their ability to buy a gun. Today on In The NoCo, we take a deeper look at what the bill would do and why it has bipartisan support.

A new laboratory run by Colorado State University is devoted to the study of chocolate: how it’s made, how to create new varieties, and why people can’t get enough of those Valentine’s Day chocolates.

Are you hunting for a new job? There's one other thing besides your resume that you might want to give some attention to: your social media accounts. A CU researcher says your posts on Facebook, X, and BlueSky can influence whether hiring managers return your call. He shares what he's learned on today’s In the NoCo.

Back in the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter’s administration backed the design and construction of some unusual homes along the Front Range. They were solar powered and energy efficient – very cutting-edge for the time. Today, one of those homes is still used as a model for green construction. We’ll get a peek inside that home today on In The NoCo.

The annual Monte Vista Crane festival kicks off this Friday in the San Luis Valley. The festival celebrates the migration of the sandhill cranes. You can hear why these mighty birds travel through Southern Colorado each year.

As nuclear waste piles up at power plants around the country, many states are aggressively fighting plans for new storage facilities. But Northwest Colorado is quietly opening the door to the idea. On this special edition of In The NoCo, we hear why some people like the idea of what nuclear waste storage could do for northwest Colorado’s economy – and why others are dead set against it.

Crews working near Boulder spent the past few months extinguishing an unusual fire: It was an underground blaze left over from the area’s coal mining days more than a century ago. Today on In The NoCo, we find out how they put out the fire – and just how hazardous these underground fires can be.

The Colorado Supreme Court recently heard arguments for an unusual case: the City of Boulder, and Boulder County, say they’ve paid millions reacting to wildfires and floods. They say those hazards are becoming more severe due to climate change – so they sued several oil companies for contributing to that climate change. Hear more about what’s next in that case on today’s episode of In the NoCo.