Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler visited the Colorado Smelter Superfund site in Pueblo on Monday, July 27. Some 1,900 south Pueblo properties were potentially affected by lead and arsenic left behind by a silver smelter that shut down in 1908.

City Park on Pueblo’s west side now has a newly restored historic entrance. The city of Pueblo constructed a grand entryway to the 157-acre park in 1905. It featured Colorado granite pillars topped by ornate Italian statuary. Over the years, it fell into disrepair and many of the statues disappeared.

Summer is here and so are the joys, and woes, of gardening.

A century ago the U.S. Forest Service’s first landscape architect argued for protecting wilderness, but that didn’t stop him from also making it easier to drive into the nation’s forests. Arthur Carhart wrote the agency’s first recreation plan and completed it in June 1920.

With all that’s going on in the world right now, we wondered what life experience and family history might be able to tell us. As part of KRCC’s Shortening the Distance project, producer Shanna Lewis got in touch with historian Carolyn Newman.

Italy has been a hot spot in the worldwide pandemic. One of the hardest hit cities is Bergamo, which happens to be a sister city to Pueblo, Colorado.  Camouflaged military trucks slowly rolled through the streets of Pueblo’s sister city in Italy last month.

Colorado Mountaineer Christine Boskoff climbed more of the world’s tallest peaks than any other American woman - a record that still stands. A new book tells her story.

Italy has been a hot spot in the worldwide pandemic. One of the hardest hit cities is Bergamo, which happens to be the sister city to Pueblo, Colorado. Producer Shanna Lewis spoke with a man who lives in Bergamo, to get a better understanding of what's happening.

The 1940s Coronado Motel in south Pueblo was included the Negro Traveler’s Green Book and is now in the National Register of Historic Places.

What should parents of children with autism keep in mind during the stay at home order? Routine for one, says renowned CSU professor Temple Grandin, who has autism.  “Make a new schedule,” she said.

Amid a statewide stay-at-home order, beacons of light are shining at night in Pueblo.  Pueblo firefighters, law enforcement officers and families are pointing lights toward the sky each night, and they’re posting photos to social media under the hashtag #PuebloShines.  “18 Nights of Light – Pueblo Shines”Join Mayor Nick Gradisar/Pueblo Community Symbol of Unity tonight

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In June 1921, days of heavy rains combined with mountain snowmelt to catastrophic results.