- If you were like me, you had a knot in your stomach last August. The Grizzly Creek Fire had exploded in Glenwood Canyon, and Hanging Lake was in its path. I was in Glenwood Springs at the time, just a few miles from that iconic natural wonder.
- U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's comments on transgender youth participating in sports has reignited a national debate. Now, constituents in her district are sounding off on what they think about her comments.
- Colorado Sun reporter Jason Blevins reflects on a tragic season in Colorado's high country, including a record number of avalanche deaths.
- The Jan. 7 letter was described as the latest instance in a pattern of WCU President Greg Salsbury’s apparent lack of awareness on social issues.
- A mobile vaccination effort created by Mesa County Public Health and Colorado Mesa University has given more than 150 people a COVID-19 shot.
- The seasonal workers who didn’t get sick still faced choking wildfire smoke in the summer and punishing cold snaps that devastated crop last spring and fall.
- In the last year, Colorado has lost nearly 6,000 people to COVID-19.
- Julie Baker is using different ingredients than at the beginning of the pandemic, but her sourdough "mother" is still going strong.
- Olga Archuleta liked to fish and liked to go to church, but mainly she liked to sing. She loved her children and animals and her late husband. In December, she died of COVID-19 in a Grand Junction nursing home. CPR’s Western Slope reporter Stina Sieg spoke with Olga’s daughter about her mother’s life.
- The Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Grand Junction marked the start of Lent, pandemic-style.
- Sometimes love looks like a bowl of torn-up pieces of bread, soaking in warm milk.
- With no chairlifts, the only way to ski down in the backcountry is to first power yourself up by “embracing the suck.”
- The political newcomer, who has vowed to carry a gun while walking around in Washington, has long inspired excitement and anger. But since the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol last week, she’s come under new scrutiny — especially from voters in her district.
- In 2020, we all had our escapes.
- 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.
