- The grassroots organization Grand Junction Mutual Aid has been offering support to people in the community since March, when the economic effects of the pandemic started to hit Mesa County hard, and they have no intention of stopping.
- Graduation is something most students dream about for years, but due to the pandemic, countless colleges have had to cancel, postpone or move ceremonies online this year. But CMU took a different approach. It decided to let people attend graduation in person, so long as each of them had a recent COVID-19 test. That's where the jet comes in.
- Pitkin will become the first Colorado county to require visitors to have tested negative 72 hours or less before their arrival.
- This year's U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree came from the Western Slope of Colorado. Follow it along its journey.
- Mesa County became the first in Colorado to get permission from the state health department to reopen restaurants and gyms to more people, but the county is locking down the most it’s been since spring amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases.
- The 55-foot-tall Engelmann spruce is from a remote part of western Colorado.
- Indoor gatherings are now capped at just 25 people, with outdoor gatherings maxing out at 75.
- Surges in coronavirus cases in both urban centers and rural communities threaten reopening.
- A month after schools opened, this shifting of teachers online is happening all across sprawling District 51, since twice as many families opted for virtual learning than school officials expected.
- Hot and dry weather is expected to return soon, which could mean more wildfires in Colorado this year.
- The Pine Gulch fire has gotten much less intense. But crews have a lot of work to do to restore the landscape and prevent landslides.
- Online elementary teachers have nearly fifty students each to deal with. For middle and high school students, the numbers are in the hundreds. So the district is moving to reassign staff.
- As of Thursday night, the blaze burned 139,006 acres and was 77 percent contained. It has exceeded the acreage burned by the Hayman Fire in 2002.
- The company plans to open Keystone Ski Resort first, and only pass holders can hit the mountain to start the season.
- The first licks of flame in the Grizzly Creek Fire grew in a matter of minutes as Kyle Jones floated down the Colorado River on Aug. 10.
