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A Colorado law can restrict access to firearms for a person who’s struggling. And under that program, teachers can report a student who’s struggling. But there’s little evidence that any teachers are using that tool to prevent violent incidents – like the recent shooting at Evergreen High. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser talks about a plan to change that.

How does a community heal from the shock and grief of a mass shooting? Journalist Erika Mahoney explores that question in a deeply personal new podcast series called ‘Senseless.’ Erika’s father died in the 2021 mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers. We hear why she made the podcast, and how she moved forward after the tragedy.

For 30 years, incarcerated men at a Canon (“canyon”)City prison cared for and trained wild mustangs, getting them ready for adoption. But now, the federal government says it is ending this unusual program, saying it costs too much. We learn more about the program’s impacts, and what’s next for Colorado’s wild horses.

There are lots of techniques people use to de-stress these days. But one unusual way to unplug is the practice of “forest bathing.” Users immerse themselves in nature and tap into all five senses as a way to slow down and reset. We get some advice for how to try this for yourself – even if you’re just getting out in your own backyard.

Students at Colorado State University have designed an innovative prosthetic foot. The design uses 3D printing technology that allows them to customize each prosthetic they make for the person who will wear it. Hear the story of the CSU engineering students who created the award-winning design.

A struggling novelist sets off a social media firestorm in a new novel by Colorado author R.L. Maizes. "A Complete Fiction" raises sticky questions about who gets to tell someone else’s story. We talk with the author about how her own social media obsessions inspired the book.

A leading conservation organization says owls need a hand – and they’re rolling out a program to do it. The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is about to launch a project to get homeowners along the Front Range to place boxes in their backyards where owls can live.

In 1955, a man planted a bomb in luggage aboard a United Airlines flight shortly before it took off from Denver. The plane exploded over Weld County, killing everyone on board. Now, 70 years later, a new memorial has been unveiled to commemorate the tragedy.

A man who fled Afghanistan and settled in Colorado after helping the U.S. military fight the Taliban was arrested in an immigration sweep targeting truck drivers on Oct. 10. He’s been held in ICE detention ever since, without being charged with a crime. Hear what happened – and how it’s affecting his family in Boulder County.

The world’s largest wildlife overpass is being built over a section of I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs. It’s a stretch of highway that averages one vehicle crash involving wildlife every day. Hear how wildlife overpasses save animals and reduce crashes – and why this one needed to be so large.