A community-centered approach that listens to unvaccinated people's fear is the next step for Pueblo's COVID vaccine rollout.

The federal mass COVID vaccination site at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo wraps up June 14 after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began operation in mid-April.

The long-term effects of COVID-19 stress have taken a serious toll on children and young people, with behavioral health visits on the rise this year.

The Cog Railway that takes riders to the top of Pikes Peak reopens this week. The city of Manitou Springs is bracing for a lot of added potential tourists this summer with the relaunch.

A new center for mental health and addiction recovery is coming to Salida. The site will help fill behavioral health gaps in south central Colorado.

It's been a few weeks since the Colorado State Fairgrounds opened as a mass vaccination site run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. KRCC caught up with FEMA's Julie Brooks, who's stationed at an incident command post in a barn. She shared the site's goals and plans for the future.

Restaurants and bars in Colorado Springs saw a 35 percent drop in sales last year during the pandemic, but there now are small signs of an economy in recovery according to an annual report released Wednesday by the Downtown Partnership.

"I think this is probably one of the worst situations I've had to deal with, life threatening that is, since Vietnam," said Konrad Spurling, about COVID.

The site will launch at the Colorado State Fairgrounds on April 14 and will be open seven days a week

Community partners in El Paso County like Serivicios de la Raza are helping to address issues of equity in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.

KRCC's Elena Rivera caught up with people across Southern Colorado to see how their work and lives have changed one year into the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Los Promotores del Valle de San Luis and Sacred Heart Catholic Church will host a COVID vaccine clinic in Alamosa on March 20.

Por Elena Rivera. Read in English — Para Lucía Miranda en Center, empezó con síntomas parecidos a un catarro. Estaba cuidando a su padre, quien tiene cáncer, y no quería enfermarlo. Decidió hacerse la prueba del coronavirus, para estar segura.

Agricultural workers, many who primarily spoke Spanish or Qʼanjobʼal, an indigenous Guatemalan language, weren't receiving information about how the virus spread and what people needed to do if they tested positive. That's where Los Promotores comes in.

Those appointments filled up in a matter of hours, but more pop-up vaccine clinics are on the way.