The World Health Organization urges vaccinated people to continue to wear masks. We talk with a leading Colorado pulmonologist about what to consider and what it means to stopping COVID-19. Then, Colorado's political landscape is being redrawn on both the state and federal level. And a coming out story 90 years in the making to mark Pride Month.

At one point in the pandemic, the rate of nursing home deaths in Colorado was the worst in the nation. How did the state get to that point? CPR’s Ben Markus lifts the curtain on his heartbreaking investigation. Then, political spies in the American West. Plus, CU astronomer Doug Duncan on the recent UFO report. And a mouthwatering cookbook is back in print!

Mudslides closed I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, and they may be a sign of things to come. Then, can training prepare officers to determine quickly if someone armed with a gun is a friend or a foe? Plus, we answer more Colorado Wonders questions about pollinators, from plants to pesticides. And the love story of a Denver philosopher whose wife died of cancer.

Mayor Marc Williams discusses the shooting that took place in Olde Town Arvada on Monday. Plus, the drought is drying up Lake Powell, an important reservoir for a lot of Western states.

There's a lot riding on Colorado's new public option; but what does accountability look like, and will there be quality health care at a lower cost? Then, Reps. Ken Buck and Joe Neguse lead the fight to rein in big tech companies. Plus, we invite some book experts to give us their summer reading picks; navigating DIA and “responsibly sourced” natural gas.

Dr. Robert Meguid, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Colorado Hospital, describes the lung transplant that saved the life of a COVID-19 patient. Then, a new lawmaker from southern Colorado reflects on the role of government as a Republican in a Democratic-controlled state legislature.

It started with cold symptoms late last year. It ended in a transplant. Bryan Raymond caught COVID-19 and is now learning to breathe again with a donor's lungs. He and his wife Trinity share their journey as he becomes the first COVID-19 patient to receive a lung transplant in Colorado.

Juneteenth is now a federal holiday and to mark the occasion, we present an encore of music that grew out of tremendous pain, but led to hope. The Spirituals Project Choir is based at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.