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Opinion: We need safer air in Colorado’s schools — but let’s be careful how we get there
Investments in indoor air quality can dramatically improve health for students, teachers, and school staff for the rest of this pandemic and the next generation.
Mother Nature sucker punched a Western Slope peach orchard. Now the farm is putting trees up for adoption.
The 2021 peach crop in Palisade is forecast to be good. But orchards to the south, like Ela Family Farms near Hotchkiss, are trying everything to survive after a tree-killing fall freeze.
Big March storms helped boost Colorado’s snowpack, but they weren’t enough to solve the long-term drought
Many of the major river basins are at or above average, but surveyors are worried that drought conditions won't improve
A world away, the coronavirus allowed me time to reconnect with childhood Colorado friends
Colorado authors, thinkers and readers share their thoughts on living through historic times as the state fights the progress of coronavirus
Coronavirus vaccines are rolling out across the world. So why are CSU scientists still working to develop new ones?
Researchers at Colorado State University are working on four COVID-19 vaccine candidates, one of which is nearing human clinical trials
Tony Frank: When it comes to higher-education equity, common ground is closer than we might think
Maybe we can bypass the equity v. equality arguments. Maybe we can focus not on what’s said about this issue, but what’s actually done about it.
Indigenous students say they need more from Colorado universities. An in-state tuition bill is a first step.
Senate Bill 29 would require higher education institutions in Colorado to charge in-state tuition to any student who is part of a federally recognized American Indian tribe that lived within the state. Fort Lewis College already waives tuition for Indigenous students.
Colorado’s stagnant budget isn’t helping the shrinking middle class, report finds
A “thought experiment” suggests the state target spending on K-12 education, judicial programs in order to help Coloradans rise out of poverty
Small liquor stores in Colorado felt pinched by new alcohol laws. Now more changes are coming.
The impacts from liberalizing the state’s alcohol laws five years ago with the addition of major liquor store chains and beer sales in grocery stores are still being felt
Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of air pollution in the West in recent years
Gains made from cleaner power plants and vehicles were lost to massive wildfires that charred landscapes, including massive burns in Colorado
Something in the way we move: The reason coronavirus came roaring back in Colorado
“The prerequisite for this current surge has been in place for a while,” says a CSU professor on the state’s explosion of COVID-19 case numbers
Reimagining Denver’s Livestock Exchange Building means respecting its distinctive past
The $8.5 million sale to a consortium clears the path to a modern beacon for agricultural ingenuity and preserves the building’s architectural finery
The high cost of climate change is already straining the budgets of Colorado towns
As wildfires, avalanches and drought increase in intensity, worried city managers are planning and budgeting for better water systems and backup sources.
The best coronavirus warning system? Poop and pooled spit, Colorado State University says
Emerging research suggests infected people start shedding the coronavirus in their poop early in their infection, and possibly days before they begin shedding it from their mouths and noses
Colorado colleges want to offer more in-person classes this spring. Here’s what they learned from a tough fall.
Some schools have been more successful than others in adapting to the coronavirus pandemic
Nestlé’s plan to pump 65 million gallons of Arkansas River water to Denver for bottling stirs contentious fight
The world’s largest food and beverage company wants a new 10-year permit to pump 200 gallons of groundwater a minute and truck it to Denver for bottling. Nestlé’s plan has drawn sharp criticism from Chaffee County locals.
These hay fields may know something we don’t: How to save the Colorado River
Ranchers in northwest Colorado are experimenting with hay species that may allow them to irrigate less and leave more water in the Upper Colorado River.
Pac-12 football to start Nov. 6, even as CU Boulder reels from coronavirus surge
There is still work to be done for Pac-12 schools to get the approvals of local officials in Northern California and now in Colorado. Due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, Boulder County officials Thursday halted gatherings for college-aged residents for two weeks and has said that includes athletic events.
Proposition 114 explained: What’s at stake with the effort to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado
The question on Colorado’s November ballot marks the first time that voters, not the federal government, would direct state wildlife managers to script a recovery plan for wolves.
