- Prospecting for gemstones in Colorado’s mountains is fun and potentially lucrative -- but it isn’t easy.
- Can you make a robot dance? A bunch of kids who can do that -- and much more -- are competing in the International Robot Olympiad in Denver this week.
- Surveys show that downhill skiing is declining in popularity, while newer outdoor sports, like freeskiing, are booming with new participants.
- Thanksgiving and Hanukkah overlap this year. It’s a very rare occurrence, so we asked local chefs for their ideas for special holiday dishes.
- Chef Daniel Asher shares his multi-layered holiday recipe for latkes.
- Special holiday recipes by Robin Bar-On, a chef for Udi's Food.
- A holiday recipe for butternut squash by Boulder Chef Hosea Rosenberg.
- For 28 years, Ed Quillen wrote columns for the Denver Post. They often made you laugh, and they always made you think. He focused his self-deprecating yet incisive wit on a wide range of topics - from politics to Thanksgiving turkeys.
- The Denver Zoo’s polar bear, Cranbeary, is participating in a study to see if she’s going to become a mom this year.
- Elaine Grant speaks with one of the book's authors, Bart Berger, who is also the founder of the Denver Mountain Park Foundation.
- A century ago, coal miners in southern Colorado went on strike to demand better working conditions.
- Testing for lead and arsenic exposure is underway for a sampling of Pueblo’s south side residents this week. KRCC’s Shanna Lewis reports: Federal staffers recruited participants who live within a half mile of the former Colorado Smelter.
- Voters ousted two Democratic state lawmakers yesterday in the first ever recall elections of state legislators. The recalls come in the wake of new gun legislation passed earlier this year. Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs conceded around 9:30, calling the defeat symbolic.
- It’s election day for parts of El Paso and Pueblo Counties. State senators John Morse and Angela Giron are facing possible recalls. KRCC’s Liz Ruskin caught up with the El Paso County Clerk at Centennial Hall, where at mid-day, voter traffic was moving swiftly.
