Wheeler Opera House
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The fledgling initiative is a series meant to showcase locals’ talent in the Roaring Fork Valley — especially during Aspen’s off season.
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Courtesy Gordon WalkerMushrooms require only a fraction of the water required to grow other food products. But one expert doesn’t think Americans are ready to embrace more edible fungi. -
Sarah LopezFor more than a decade, Julianne Guy was the only midwife living in the Roaring Fork Valley. After years of dealing with what she calls bias and discrimination from the state, she joined a class action lawsuit against Colorado regulators. -
Regan MertzThe Community Hope Fund will offer financial assistance for therapy. The new fund will be overseen by the Aspen Hope Center, a mental health care provider in the valley. -
Courtesy Colorado State PatrolA passenger train struck a semi-tanker truck off Highway 6 just east of Rifle Wednesday morning. The tanker driver sustained minor injuries, but no other injuries were reported.
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On today's newscast: The U.S. Forest Service is asking Pitkin County to manage the Maroon Bells recreation area amid federal funding cuts, carbon-reducing upgrades are coming to the public library and human services buildings in Aspen, a loaded ammunition magazine was discovered onboard a Frontier Airlines plane at the Denver airport, and more.
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The Revolving Door ProjectInsurance regulation is complex, in part, because it’s done state-by-state, meaning there are dozens of different schemes across the country. -
U.S. Forest ServiceThe Wilderness Act prohibits motorized vehicles and equipment to protect places “untrammeled by man” and to preserve “solitude.” -
Caroline Llanes/Rocky Mountain Community RadioThe White River National Forest would like Pitkin County to take over the management of the Maroon Bells Scenic Area. That's due to a budget gap and staffing woes. -
Dominic Gentilcore/Adobe StockUtilities across the West are launching a new regional energy market designed to help them buy and share power a full day before it’s needed — an effort supporters say could lower costs, improve reliability and make it easier to move renewable energy across state lines.
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Patti Perret/Amazon Content ServicesIn Aleshea Harris' fiery feature debut, men are men, and women pay the consequences. -
Evgeniy Maloletka/APUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children. -
Buda Mendes/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images; YONHAP via AP/Screenshot by NPRThis week, in Warshington, D.C., the Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve and we wrote a quiz question about his name. Enjoy that, and the other nine, too. -
Madison Thorn/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat does representation look like for Tennessee voters who were split into three new congressional districts last week? NPR traveled from Memphis into the Nashville suburbs to ask.
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Gen Z homeowners now outpace millennials at the same age. They're more likely to be single and less likely to use help from parents. -
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials including Raúl Castro's grandson during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said. -
Pope Leo XIV denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a "spiral of annihilation," as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine. -
Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman. -
State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. -
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail.
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