Colorado voters will decide 14 statewide ballot measures on Nov. 3. For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, KOTO's Julia Caulfield talks with Bente Birkeland of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance about all of them, from fentanyl penalties and immigration reporting to income taxes and the right to hunt and fish.

KVNF's weekly call-in gardening show. As the Worm Turns is now on Wednesday's @ 5 PM.

When fire commanders try to figure out how to contain a major wildfire, the last thing you might expect them to deploy is a herd of beef cattle. But on the recent Gold Mountain Fire in western Colorado, cows are eating the “fine fuels” along a three-mile fire line on the Big Cimarron River.Putting that idea into practice five years ago would have required miles of electric fencing and a range rider to gather strays. Now, new technology has changed the game for cattle grazing by putting electronic collars — all solar-powered — on cows and linking them by satellite.

State air regulators say the West Elk coal mine near Somerset put out nearly four times the volatile organic compounds its permit allows, and sanctions may follow. KVNF talked with the Colorado Sun reporter who covered the story and with a North Fork methane-burning entrepreneur.

Many of us have heard about or participated in a mindfulness or meditation retreat. Retreats vary in length, cost and content and it can be overwhelming to deciding which one, if any, would benefit us. I do believe that retreats are very beneficial but I don't believe they have to be organized or costly in order to be so. Some of my most beneficial retreats have been those that I have done for free on my own in nature. Today we'll talk about the key components of a retreat and next week, we'll talk more about the benefits.

Your weekly Regional Science Update.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, incumbent candidate for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District (right), shakes hands with challenger Dwayne Romero after their debate at a Club 20 at the Asteria Theater in Grand Junction. Sept. 19, 2026.

Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx used footage of a Yazidi teenager who survived captivity and trafficking by ISIS militants without permission from PBS NewsHour, who produced the interview.

Zinnia Bender of Paonia recorded her first podcast on her phone, in a closet at home, and NPR gave it an honorable mention in its Student Podcast Challenge. Listen to Hope and Resistance here, and hear the North Fork High School sophomore read one of her short stories.