What’s the secret to making a living doing your art? “There really is no magic trick … spoiler,” says Mason Currey, author of Making Art and Making a Living. But in this episode of Emerging Form, we talk with Currey about what he learned by studying how other creatives across genres, cultures and centuries have made it work. We also talk about his own relationship to creative practice–little tricks and attitude shifts, the importance of repetition and habit, developing trust in our own practice, and which compromises can really harm our creative energy.

The West is in a world of hurt this spring, warns writer Jonathan Thompson. We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth is one of the most extreme on record.

Tuesday's newscast covers an I-70 resurfacing project starting next week between Gypsum and Eagle, a significant drop in Colorado auto theft, Cedaridge's early drought response plan, a debate over data center regulations, and a conservation easement protecting North Fork Valley orchard land.

Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.

Ridgway takes MTN Lodge to court over lodging taxes and land use, the Navajo Nation formally opposes the federal voting bill - the Save America Act, Colorado Parks and Wildlife issues spring boating warnings, and hundreds rally in Paonia and Montrose.

A four-part series on the benefits of meditation and mindfulness.

In astronomy, we rely heavily on visual information. Images from telescopes, graphs of light curves, plotted orbits, spectra and diagrams. Most of the ways we understand astronomy today are shown through these two-dimensional formats. It's almost always something we look at. But vision is only one way of interpreting information. From quantum physics to the largest structures in the universe, the underlying reality is governed by motion, frequency and structure.

Montrose authorities are investigating an unattended death at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, while a missing woman was found safe on Owl Creek Pass. KVNF also examined unusually early runoff tied to drought and hot weather, and heard from Valley Food Partnership about upcoming agriculture events in Montrose County.

Your weekly regional science update.