- The fundraiser includes a Hawaiian cooking class, profit-sharing nights with businesses in Grand Junction — including Hawaiian-owned restaurants — and direct donations.
- Whitman Park was closed unexpectedly last week. Community groups say the move makes it hard to find residents who need help.
- Colorado Mesa University's ties to the Hawaiian islands go back decades. Now, a group led by CMU alumni are using those ties to raise money for those affected by the wildfires in Lahaina, where an estimated 97 people died.
- Lucas Bullen got an A on his project, but it took another 20 years to get the community center.
- Colorado West Pride just wrapped up its 11th year. The Grand Junction event takes place in September, and draws LGBTQ people, and allies, from all over. Jesse Daniels founded the event. He and others talk with Tom Hesse about the challenges ahead as they look to pass the baton to the next generation.
- Poet Esther Belin lives in Durango. She is Diné and shares some of her work with Colorado Matters Western Slope producer Tom Hesse, and reflects on how culture, community, and chocolate inspire her poetry.
- Whitman Park has been a regular congregation spot for Mesa County’s unhoused for years.
- Team Waponi joins finalists from around the world seeking to better understand rainforests.
- The recovery effort has saved many fish and won over many fans in 30 years.
- Survey markers are synonymous with summiting a Fourteener, but their use in measuring elevation gives way to something much more complex.
- Chris Fabricant is among the attorneys representing James Genrich, a man who was convicted in a series of pipe bombings in the 1990s.
- The herd's range area in Rio Blanco County is considered inadequate for the horses due to the scarcity of resources.
- The ruling finds the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the Uinta Basin Railway project was flawed and ignored potential environmental damage.
- Megan Nix’s new book, “Remedies for Sorrow,” follows her family's journey and explores why American medicine has not prioritized congenital CMV.
- Lorelei Cloud joined the Colorado Water Conservation Board in March as the first tribal council member to serve in the position. Cloud, the vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribal Council, was appointed to the position by Gov. Jared Polis.
- John Echohawk helped found the Native American Rights Fund, which is headquartered in Boulder.
