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Days ago it was the Ouray County Fairgrounds. Now it's a town of nearly a thousand people, a kitchen serving 900 breakfasts a day, its own medics, showers, laundry and security. KVNF's Brody Wilson and Audrey McCabe, go inside the incident command post for the Gold Mountain Fire.
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KVNF's weekly call-in gardening show. As the Worm Turns is now on Wednesday's @ 5 PM.
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Noeline Hofmann went from working cattle ranches in Manitoba to collaborating with Country singer Zach Bryan in under a year. Hear her tell the story in her own words ahead of her Telluride Bluegrass Festival debut.
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Four Democrats are running for their party's nomination in Colorado's attorney general race. At a forum hosted by the Colorado Working Families Party, they laid out their priorities — standing up to the Trump administration, immigration, housing and workers' rights. Local Motion brings you an excerpt.
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With only simple majority votes required in each chamber of Congress, the management plan for the 1.9-million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument could soon be thrown out, writes Scott Braden, executive director of South Utah Wilderness Alliance.Representatives who would like to replace redrock scenery with oil and gas drilling and ATV trails have been using the Congressional Review Act to cancel management plans that were years in the making. Now it’s Utah’s turn, Braden says, and all we can do is urge everyone who cares about the state’s bedrock canyons to tell their elected representatives just that.
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A conversation with actress Sandra Bauleo and director Thomas Caruso who will be presenting a staged reading of “Famous” this week at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia on Saturday the 20th at 3pm. As part of the project, Bauleo and Caruso will spend a week in residence in the North Fork Valley, developing the piece.
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KVNF's newest additions to the music library updated June 15, 2026
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Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.
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The second part of a three part series on using mindfulness to heal from our mistakes.
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On this week's Regional Roundup, we hear about a jazz festival in northern New Mexico that celebrates Indigenous jazz music. Then, we head to the Roaring Fork Valley on Colorado's Western Slope to hear about efforts to create safe passages for wildlife crossing highways. After that we head to Wyoming to hear how goats are being used for fire mitigations. We round out the show hearing how Western Colorado University is working with Tribes to repatriate the remains of Native Americans that have been held by a museum.
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