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The White House promises to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Utility lines loom over Superior on a windy day. Dec. 17, 2025.

Tens of thousands without power due to Xcel public safety shut off Wednesday amid high winds

By Molly Cruse and Tegan Wendland

A group of people wearing colorful costumes and headdresses are walking down a sidewalk. The participants are spread out along the sidewalk, with some closer to the foreground and others further back.

‘We feel safer at church.’ Latino community works together to provide health care access amid fear, high costs

Ute Mountain Tribal Park

Thinking about taking a pottery shard from Mesa Verde or Ute Mountain Tribal Park? Don’t

By Elaine Tassy

HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRIC POWER LINES DOUGLAS COUNTY

Xcel Energy might temporarily cut power to high fire risk regions ahead of high wind event

By Molly Cruse, Haylee May, and Alejandro A. Alonso Galva

Gov. Jared Polis selects new leader of Colorado’s higher education department

Former Hygiene fire captain found guilty of sexually assaulting five women in a four-year span

FRONTIER-AIRLINES-TERMINAL-A-DIA

Frontier Airlines CEO resigns

Be Well Dating App Fatigue

Hinge and Tinder ignored Denver women’s complaints about serial rapist, lawsuit alleges

By Allison Sherry

Lights on a parked police vehicle flash.

Two middle-school girls found Tuesday morning after going missing from basketball game in Elbert County Monday night

By Colorado Public Radio Staff

Xcel likely to shut off power to many Front Range communities Wednesday due to dry conditions and high winds. Here’s what you can do

LITTLETON HIGH SCHOOL WOODSHOP

The secret ingredients to keeping students engaged in class? Empathy and purpose

By Jenny Brundin

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Government and Politics

‘A culture of fear,’ outdated equipment and data manipulation. How the Colorado public health lab unraveled

A bottle of the MMR vaccine photographed in Lubbock, Texas, where a measles outbreak has sickened dozens.

Colorado records 36th measles case of the year, state’s epidemiologist says vaccination provides the best protection

inmate holds up a photocopy of a drawing of an old truck with a bed filled with pumpkins in front of an old barn

Life and Culture

New Mesa County exhibit shows the healing power of art made behind bars

photo shows a hillside stand of lodge pole pine trees

Government and Politics

First lodgepoles, now ponderosas, Colorado is fighting beetles on multiple fronts

By Bente Birkeland

Life and Culture

Books We Love: 2025

By Lauren Antonoff Hart and Daniel J. Schneider

UTE LANGUAGE

These elementary schools in Southwest Colorado are trying to save the Ute language

By Elaine Tassy

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