Fall is a feeding frenzy for bears as they fatten up for winter hibernation. Habitat loss and climate change are driving more bears into urban areas in search of food—a trend that's dangerous for both bears and humans. Community Fruit Rescue, a Boulder nonprofit, works to harvest residential fruit trees before the bears do.

For more than seven decades, coal and the energy made from it have become entwined with Navajo communities, culture, and the Navajo Nation economy. A recent demolition of the smokestacks on the San Juan Generating Station near Kirtland, NM, showed the complexities of the Navajo relationship to coal.

Kroger executives have testified in Denver District Court in defense of their $25 billion merger with Albertsons arguing that the merger would help them compete with retail giants like Walmart and Costco. Colorado AG Phil Weiser argued that the grocery store consolidation would further strain farmers across Colorado, who already operate on razor thin margins.

Author Jon Waterman has spent decades exploring some of the most remote and wild places in the country, including the Gates of the Arctic National Park, which he first visited in 1983. When he returned nearly four decades later, he was shocked by the changes that had occured as a result of the climate crisis.

The diplomat and foreign policy expert is visiting Colorado Mountain College campuses this week to talk about the book — which is focused on “The Ten Habits of Everyday Citizens.”

It's chile pepper season in the Rocky Mountain West! Although farmers in Pueblo have been growing different kinds of peppers for decades, Colorado didn’t really have its own signature variety of chile pepper until the early 2000s – when a CSU agriculture professor named Mike Bartolo created the Pueblo chile. And in a few short years, they’ve become a regional rival to New Mexico’s more famous hatch green chiles.

In 2023, Alan Muñoz helped launch the Civic Leader Education and Advocacy Program with Voces Unidas in Mexico City. Before this year’s program in May, Muñoz traveled to Mexico early to see his family in Calvillo Aguascalientes, many of whom he had never met. This is the final story in a three-part series documenting the journeys of DACA recipients in Mexico.

Before this summer, Miguel González, an apprentice electrician who grew up in the Colorado River Valley, only knew stereotypes of his home country. However, a travel permit that allowed him to fly internationally as a DACA recipient in May gave him a vision of real Mexico and helped him fulfill an application requirement for his green card. This is the second story in a three-part series documenting the journeys of DACA recipients in Mexico.

Luz Galaviz, a third grade teacher in Rifle, normally can’t travel abroad due to her immigration status. But after securing advance parole in May, she flew to Mexico City for a leadership conference with Glenwood Springs nonprofit Voces Unidas, despite concerns that she may not be allowed back into the U.S. This is the first story in a three-part series documenting the journeys of DACA recipients in Mexico and how the trips could change their lives in the Colorado River Valley.

In the small town of Ridgway, tucked into the rugged San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, a community effort is underway to build a track at the local secondary school. If completed, it would be the first publicly accessible track facility in the region, offering a new space for both students and residents.