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North Fork High School students and community leaders role-play drought decisions in a water planning game as Colorado faces low snowpack and Colorado River uncertainty.

The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a chair in the high-school cafeteria to honor a young boy who was shot and killed in December of 2024.

Nonpartisan staffers told lawmakers this month that the way they spent billions of dollars in one-time federal funds given to Colorado during the COVID pandemic contributed to the state’s budget shortfall.

The school district is testing the feasibility of a geothermal field to heat and cool its three schools. If successful, it could expand the thermal energy network beyond its campus.

The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to fund the Health School Meals for All program. But it might still go back to the ballot.

The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School Board is going to seek outside legal counsel to review the contracts for the outgoing and incoming district superintendents.

LP McKay with KSJD speaks with Matt Keefauver with the Montezuma Leadership Network about the long-running Leadership Montezuma program, how it connects residents to the systems that keep Montezuma County running, and why bringing people together matters now more than ever.

Kino Benally’s unique ability to capture sounds from the environment and orchestrate them into music—whether for film or for dancing—has earned him widespread admiration.

Each year the cycle continues, state lawmakers will have fewer ways to address the gap without cutting state programs and services. Skyrocketing Medicaid costs are primarily to blame.

A Republican state senator and a Democratic state representative presented a grim picture of Colorado’s budget in Dolores Saturday morning.