The Gold Mountain Fire has grown by a single acre in ten days, and evacuation zones are slowly standing down. But crews are still on the mountain undoing their own fire lines — and the burn scar will be a dangerous place to walk for months.

This summer's vast wildfires have left many Coloradans wary. And that fear shows up not just in how we react to wildfires—but in the words we use to describe them.

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KVNF's Music Team puts together a biweekly list of music we keep coming back to. This is music we can't get enough of right now.

“Sometimes I let the subconscious deal with it,” says science writer Elizabeth Preston, author of the new book The Creature’s Guide to Caring, How animal parents teach us that humans were born to care. In this interview, we talk about the evolution of a manuscript–how she went from the “Big Idea” to the actual book. Other threads include the importance of walking away, balancing parenting with a writing life, why humor helps, the invitation to be bold, and how the “gnomes in the back of my head” have helped Elizabeth solve structural problems with her creative projects.Elizabeth Preston is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New York Times and has written for Science, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Orion, Slate, Audubon, Discover, National Geographic, and others. She is a winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award. Preston is also a humor writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Parents, and Real Simple, and was the editor of Muse, a magazine about science and ideas for kids. She lives in Massachusetts. Her new book is The Creature’s Guide to Caring: How animal parents teach us that humans were born to care

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KVNF's newest additions to the music library updated August 3, 2026

In the tiny mountain town of Lake City, emergency medical care relies heavily on local volunteers. So when three residents recently completed a basic EMT course and passed the national boards, it's a cause for celebration in the community. As part of our continuing coverage of EMS services on the Western Slope, KVNF’s Laura Palmisano introduces us to two of the new volunteer EMTs.

KVNF’s Top Spin is a spotlight on the most-played album in the past 6 weeks by our DJs.