- Journalist Kelley McMillan recently looked at why Western ski towns have a higher suicide rate than other areas.
- History sleuths can scoop up $25,000 if they turn up new information about a Jewish colony that failed in the 1880s.
- Rick Kidd, who administers the district that oversees the levee, says the total project will end up costing more than the original estimates.
- Martin McGovern wades into life’s beauty and horror in his first book of poetry.
- Colorado poet Dan Beachy-Quick experiments with traditional poetry to find meaning in being human.
- Journalist Murray Carpenter’s new book takes a closer look at caffeine and how it has percolated through cultures around the world for ages.
- Crews should start replacing the concrete facing from more than a half mile of the original structure in early November.
- Work on the Arkansas River levee that protects downtown Pueblo from flooding is winding down for the season. Planning for the next phase is underway.
- As repairs on the aging Arkansas River levee move ahead, heavy equipment will cut through the image of a corn maiden, along with scores of other paintings that cover the 2.8-mile long levee. Construction workers are taking extra care as they remove the corn maiden, and dozens of people gathered Thursday afternoon to say goodbye
- Pet dogs with cancer participate in clinical trials for new human treatments at CSU.
- Boyd Norton says photography is good way to preserve the world’s wild places.
- Cat Bigney spent months living like our ancestors did millions of years ago for a new reality TV show.
- Lead and arsenic were deposited by a smelter that ceased operations in 1908.
- The Ute Moutain Ute are among tribes working to preserve 1.9 million acres of ancestral land in southern Utah.
- The Pueblo Conservancy District is moving forward to find a contractor for the next phase of work to repair the Arkansas River Levee. Contractors will need to remove 12 feet of dirt and concrete from the top of the existing levee.
- The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 set a young woman named Mochi on a path to avenge the deaths of her family and people.
