There is nothing more humbling than becoming a parent.

Who doesn’t like a pretty cloud in the sky? As familiar as the Sun and the Moon, clouds assume a wide array of shapes and sizes—from ominous cumulonimbus to cottony altocumulus, feathery cirrus to leaden stratus, and various hybrids in-between. We see them year-round worldwide, boding fair and foul weather alike.

Today's KVNF Regional Newscast covers a fatal I-70 crash, a legal dispute over worker housing and taxes in Ridgway, new state climate grants, Colorado River negotiations, and an Olympic-bound ski mountaineering athlete from Aspen.

Your weekly Regional Science Update.

Thursday’s KVNF Regional Newscast covers a major public lands acquisition near the Gunnison River, new developments in the Telluride ski resort controversy, a federal fraud appeal, and Colorado’s next predator reintroduction: the wolverine.

This week on Local Motion we feature a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio

Local reporter Marty Durbin in western Colorado has seen the three town councils she regularly covers change drastically. They have morphed from the sleepy meetings they were decades ago to long sessions that wade into everything from getting grants for water projects costing millions of dollars to controversial planning attempts. "I’ve watched council members exercise self-control and perseverance even as comment periods grow heated,” she reports. So the least she can do, Durlin writes, “is cover it."

Both Telluride and Mountain Village move forward with investigations into a California meeting involving local elected officials and a proposed purchase of the Telluride Ski Resort.We also look at growing concerns around Project 7’s Resiliency Project, as the estimated cost of a new water treatment plant has risen sharply.Plus, law enforcement investigates a disturbing incident near Vail involving racist materials linked to ICE detention activity.And we hear from the Rocky Mountain Institute about the state of climate progress, emerging technologies, and what it will take to meet global climate goals.

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