Colorado Public Radio

Restaurant-led agriculture effort aims to fight climate change

May 9, 2021 at 1:20 p.m.

Restaurants and other food businesses donate 1% of their profits to fund farming and ranching projects that suck carbon from the atmosphere through plants that take in the greenhouse gas...

Proposed Whitney Reservoir has far-reaching impacts for Western Slope

March 21, 2021 at 12:51 p.m.

While most people in Colorado live on the Front Range, most of the state’s water is on the West Slope. That’s where the snowpack melts and makes its way into...

San Luis Valley group goes door-to-door with COVID info

March 14, 2021 at 12:19 p.m.

Los Promotores is filling a whole in the San Luis Valley left by public health officials. They offer door-to-door information services for rural and Spanish-speaking communities.

President Donald Trump, left, watches ...

Colorado鈥檚 Aerospace Alley prepares for Space Command move to Alabama

March 7, 2021 at 1:08 p.m.

When Kathy Boe heard the news in January that President Donald Trump was moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, she understood why Trump...

An empty RTD H-Line light rail train heads over Yale Ave at I-25 during rush hour on March 18, 2020.

RTD could sacrifice parking for more affordable housing near transit stations

February 21, 2021 at 12:57 p.m.

From the patch of grass where she stood on a recent morning with her dog Kasha, Rosemarie Chostler could see two of the most important places in her day-to-day life.

History fuels vaccine hesitation among some Black Americans

February 14, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

Over 60% of whites and Latinos say they definitely or probably would get vaccinated, while just over 40% of Blacks said they planned to.

East Troublesome fire may signal new era of big blow-ups

January 31, 2021 at 12:38 p.m.

Grand Lake Fire Marshal Dan Mayer never thought the East Troublesome Fire would make it to town.

Malea Anderson, who has suffered headaches, fatigue and other symptoms she suspects are related to the coronavirus, is shown at her home in Erie, Colo., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. In Colorado, Anderson and dozens of people report a wide range of lingering COVID-19 symptoms that last for weeks, even months, but little is known about the reasons why.

COVID-19 “long haulers” suffer symptoms weeks, months later

September 21, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

In the early hours of an April morning, at her home in Erie, Malea Anderson woke up with what felt like an explosion of ice water up her spine and...

Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman displays ...

Space Force aims to set standard for diversity, inclusion

September 6, 2020 at 1:50 p.m.

McCaa鈥檚 squadron, based at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, operates one of the approximately 30 GPS satellites used by more than 5 billion people around the world.

Ana Dominguez stands outside her mobile ...

In Leadville, coronavirus closures expose economy inequity rooted in immigration status

July 26, 2020 at 1:38 p.m.

Colorado Public Radio reports that because of long-standing economic inequities rooted in immigration status, that pain has been especially acute in the nearby mobile home parks, home to many of...

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