- The former Colorado Smelter site in south Pueblo is now designated a Superfund Site by the Environmental Protection Agency. As KRCC’s Shanna Lewis reports, this means the federal agency will investigate and clean up toxic waste in the area.
- The Morrison-based painter says his demanding methods mean he captures "views rarely seen and probably never painted."
- Expert: Colorado is "taking so much water out of aquifers, rivers and streams that it puts us at risk of running out."
- The start of a massive repair project on the Arkansas River levee in Pueblo is being delayed until December due to historic preservation concerns and some delays in the funding. The project’s consulting engineer Kim Kock says the state historic preservation officer has said the levee could be deemed historic because it was constructed in
- A new book by a Colorado photographer will put your iPhone pics to shame.
- The system that’s supposed to help people at the end of life often causes suffering for patients and their families, says a doctor.
- The Pueblo Conservancy District awarded the contract for phase one of the project to repair the aging Arkansas River levee. The estimated cost for this initial phase is $3.6 million and is expected to begin in November and end in March. KRCC’s Shanna Lewis reports.
- Aerial photographer John Wark will document world's largest mural before it's destroyed by upcoming repairs to the Arkansas River levee in Pueblo.
- Michael Henry, a poet and director of Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop turns the humdrum stuff of everyday life into inspiration for his new book, "Active Gods."
- This week at Naropa University in Boulder, contemplatives, scientists, and activists explore how to take compassion to a radical level.
- The contemplative university has been a crossroads of eastern philosophy and western academics for the last 40 years.
- The mural that covers most of the 2.8 mile long Arkansas River levee in Pueblo is facing its demise. Hundreds of huge images painted over the last forty years by at least a thousand artists combine to make this artwork.
- Nearly 3 miles of artwork created over almost 40 years will be ripped apart when the concrete is torn off the levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo to meet federal flood control requirements.
- The levee that protects much of downtown Pueblo from potential floodwaters in the Arkansas River is about to get a major facelift. After levees failed in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, FEMA made a push for levee certification.
- A longer wildflower season may have far-reaching ripple effects for birds, bees -- and even fruit trees.
- The Pueblo Conservancy District, which oversees the Arkansas River levee, took action Wednesday to find a qualified contractor to repair the aging structure.
