• Delta County moves to blue on the state's COVID dial
• BLM will kill at least 500 wild horses from Piceance Basin herd
• Kate Redmond reports on marijuana ordinance updates from Tuesday's Paonia trustee meeting 
• KUNC's Luke Runyon reports Greeley's multi-million dollar water project is not without opposition

• Montrose Airport redirected flights to Grand Junction Saturday due to weather system malfunction
• Residents want fewer hours of closures for Little Blue Creek Canyon Project on Highway 50
• Pine Gulch Fire rehabilitation efforts underway for sagebrush, pinyon, juniper near Fruita
• Roice-Hurst Humane Society helps expand Delta animal shelter with grand opening Sunday
• CDPHE says COVID-19 vaccine supplies may increase in coming weeks
• Renewed conversations about taxes amid revenue shortfalls in state budgets bring up menstrual equity

Host Jill Spears and gardening gurus Lance Swigart and Lulu Volckhausen discuss winter gardening subjects and take your calls.

• Delta County Memorial Hospital & 13 clinics rebranding as Delta Health
• Animas River records record low flow, again
• Elijah McClain: Investigation criticizes Aurora police & 'failed' internal investigation
• Lauren Boebert amends FEC filing on mileage reimbursements
• Critics: FCC awarded SpaceX nearly $900m for untested rural broadband project
• Luke Runyon: Rivers in the southwest impacted by climate change
• Kate Redmond interviews Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship president David Jenkins

• Former Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald arrested for suspected DUI again
• Ouray's drinking water likely infiltrated by surface water
• Hot springs in Rico now closed to non-residents
• National Western Stock Show in Denver will return in 2022, says CEO
• Stretch of highway from South Fork to Creede to Lake City to Blue Mesa Reservoir now a national scenic byway
• Scott Franz reports lawmakers are responding to COVID much differently than the Spanish Flu of 1918

Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears talk with KVNF about their brand new album "Just Over The Ridge." This Western Colorado duo connected through Victor Wooten's Center for Music and Nature and have been playing music together ever since.

• Hotchkiss accepts Baker Ranches bid for Fire Mountain Canal shares, puts Overland Ditch shares out for new bids
• Paonia in Motion virtual input gathering events scheduled for Monday - Wednesday next week
• Grand Junction City Council marijuana task force solidifies recommendations on land use codes
• KVNF's Kate Redmond gets an update from Paradise Theater manager Sunshine Knight
• Laura Palmisano hears about changes to the COVID dial from CDPHE official Mara Brosy-Wiwchar 

Colorado uses an online tool called the COVID-19 dial to track the spread of the virus across the state. It rates counties on a six-color scale. Green is the lowest level. Purple is the highest. Recently, the state released a revamped version of the dial. For KVNF News, Laura Palmisano speaks to Mara Brosy-Wiwchar, with the Colorado Department of Public Health, about the changes. 

When it comes to astronomy, the dark night skies of the Western Slope command most of our attention. It can be easy to forget that the most important astronomical object actually lives in the daytime sky: the Sun!