- As some Colorado workers realized they could do their jobs anywhere, many packed up for the Western Slope.
- The war in Afghanistan may be over, but one Colorado woman's fight to get her family to safety has just begun. Narges -- we're not using her last name for safety reasons -- is here from Afghanistan on a Special Immigrant Visa. But she says her siblings face retribution from the Taliban -- and only one has managed to flee.
- The people who encountered Elijah McClain on Aug. 24, 2019, failed him, according to a 32-page criminal indictment filed Wednesday in Adams County District Court. The charges against five Aurora Police officers and paramedics in McClain's death that day include manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. State Representative Leslie Herod, D-Denver, has sponsored legislation to increase the accountability of police when it comes to use of force and chokeholds in arrests.
- People like Mariko Wilcox have been moving to Grand Junction during the pandemic where they've found they can work from home. What does that mean in the larger economic picture? Robin Brown, until recently the executive director of the Grand Junction Economic Partnership, joins us with answers.
- Earlier this year, Mesa County reported the state’s first cases of the highly contagious Delta variant. As Colorado Mesa University's 11,000 students return to class, the school's football players were recently encouraged to get vaccinated. It's one example of the university's strategy to combat COVID-19.
- And having more of the workforce at home could help the growing problems of pollution and climate change, Polis said.
- The death toll continues to rise in Haiti after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the island in the Caribbean last Saturday. So far, more than 2,000 people are confirmed dead and 10,000 injured. Those numbers are expected to climb as searches through rubble continues. The quake was centered in a rural area about 5 miles from the city of Petit Trou de Nippes where a Colorado non-profit called Locally Haiti has worked for more than 30 years.
- Some of the animals here have been abused by past owners. The sanctuary founder says people buying these animals and not knowing how to care for them has resulted in a captive wildlife crisis.
- The Wildlife Animal Sanctuary northeast of Denver has rescued hundreds of large animals once confined to roadside zoos and circuses, or housed by misguided people who wanted them as pets. The most recent rescues include tigers and other carnivores featured in the Netflix series “Tiger King.” Sanctuary CEO Pat Craig on providing a more natural environment for the animals and on the patchwork of laws prolonging the captive wildlife crisis.
- The annual Perseid meteor shower hits its peak next Wednesday and Thursday. Find a dark place and settle in to watch sand-sized bits of ice and rock streak through the night sky. The how-tos from astronomer Doug Duncan of CU-Boulder.
- Former Gov. Richard "Dick" Lamm was, as one friend called him, a “prophet and provocateur.” He died last week at 85, capping a career of more than 60 years in which he captured the spotlight by taking on thorny issues that resonate today. We hear excerpts from some of Lamm’s interviews with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner, and memories from longtime aide and friend Eric Sondermann.
- State lawmakers and local officials in northern Colorado are ramping up efforts to restore what remains of a historic Black settlement called Dearfield. The little farming community once embodied the dreams of people who lived there.
- A thunderstorm hit hillsides scarred by wildfire in Larimer County earlier this week. It caused a flash flood that raced through Poudre Canyon and killed at least one person. Last year’s fires scorched more than a half-million acres in Colorado. And rainstorms are a fact of life here. That means the threat will be with us for a while. For more on flash floods -- and how to stay safe -- we spoke with meteorologist Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service.
- It turns out whales are saying "I'm here" as they travel underwater. Leanna Matthews is an affiliate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and assistant director of the nonprofit Sound Science Research Collective. Her work is chronicled in the new Apple+ documentary "Fathom."
- As the federal government pumps billions into the national housing crisis, it’s time to end a moratorium on evictions that kept millions of renters in their homes through the pandemic, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said Thursday.
- Open again, closed again. That’s the way it’s been for a major interstate through Colorado for the last few weeks. Mudslides -- or the threat of them -- have led to frequent closures of I-70 around Glenwood Springs near the site of last year’s Grizzly Creek wildfire. And according to Colorado School of Mines geologist Paul Santi, it isn’t just burn scars that are causing trouble.
