Picture a clear stream where spawning salmon undulate over clean gravels, pressing upstream through waters the iconic fish once vanished from entirely. That’s Lookingglass Creek, in the Umatilla National Forest.In the Wallowa National Forest, Huckleberry Mountain sustains rare species like the Wallowa rosy finch, and on the Malheur National Forest, there’s an Alaska yellow cedar forest hundreds of miles inland from its core range.These three national forests in eastern Oregon share something in common: They are intact roadless forests now on the verge of losing the protections that have kept them free from industrial logging and new roads. These lands are also common ground shared by Tribal members, hunters, anglers, wildlife watchers and anyone who values a quiet trail into the backcountry.

Festival Director Lillia McClure discusses how the celebration became a Paonia tradition.

Last week, we began answering the question that I often get when teaching Mindfulness which is "Does this get easier?" We started by examining how it can make life easier, and said "Yes, it absolutely does". And today we're going to talk about how the practice of Mindfulness itself, gets easier.

If you’ve ever stepped outside on a clear night here on the Western Slope, especially away from the lights of the town, you’ve probably noticed something so obvious we rarely question it; the sky is dark. Not just shadowed – but truly, deeply dark.It seems simple, but for astronomers, this idea leads to one of the most interesting questions in science, If the universe is full of stars, why isn’t the night sky bright everywhere you look?

Former Montrose County School District administrator Brian Purnell, whose complaint prompted an investigation into district leadership, is threatening to sue the district unless it agrees to a settlement of nearly $570,000.

Colorado's campaign season picked up a bit on Saturday at the Club 20 debates in Grand Junction, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx and U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper did no attend. Bente Birkeland from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance talked with Rocky Mountain Community Radio about who did show up, and what they said.

Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond posted a list of local Democrats and Republicans that he believes have formed a "cross-party establishment" in Montrose.

Paonia farmer Laura Parker describes how an unseasonably warm March and subsequent summer drought disrupted her seed-growing operation.

When I was 18 and first worked as a river guide, I assumed I had to be as tough — or even tougher — than the guys I worked with.It was the early 2000s, when few women were guiding. Though I loved being on the river, I often felt isolated, thinking I had to work harder than anyone else to be taken seriously. I believed that in part because I didn’t know the stories of women who had come before me.Little by little, I began to hear about Georgie White, the first female guide on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. She started Georgie’s Royal River Rats in the early 1950s and made a name for herself running huge motorboats — stocked with Coors and manned exclusively by Los Angeles firemen. Her trips were known to be raucous and so were her outfits, leopard prints preferred. But the stories sometimes made her seem more like a caricature, a wild and outrageous woman.