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Marty Durlin/KVNFAs midterm elections approach, counties remind eligible voters to make sure their information is up to date; Delta Board of Commissioners sign letter supporting rescission of 2001 National Roadless Rule; Marx agrees to moderated debate; Marty Durlin brings us to the Grand Mesa Writers' Symposium -
Craig Childs/FacebookToday marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Western Slope writer Craig Childs was in New York that day. He sat down with KVNF’s Brody Wilson this week to reflect on what he experienced, two and half decades later.
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The Montrose County School Board has announced that Superintendent Dr. Carrie Stephenson resigned, at their request. -
Local playwright and director Marty Durlin is bringing a new musical theater experiment, “Outspoken,” to the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia. The piece explores nearly 200 years of activism through the stories and words of five women: Lucy Stone, Kate Richards O’Hare, Emma Goldman, Judi Bari and Greta Thunberg. -
Sweitzer Lake State Park is undergoing a massive redevelopment and expansion project that will bring overnight camping back to the park for the first time since 1981. Recent land purchases have allowed the park to triple in size from around 200 acres to 600 acres. -
Most outdoor brands don't own a sewing machine. On this Local Motion, two Western Slope manufacturers on what it actually takes to make things here — from a local outdoor gear company hand-cutting every backpack in a Montrose shop, to another innovative company that rebuilt itself around a military contract. -
KVNF's news team brings you a series of stories from the Gold Mountain Fire -
An interview with Buffy Witt, the former director Hinsdale County EMS, about the difficulties of running a volunteer dependent agency in the most remote county in the lower 48 states. -
Sara Rinne spent nearly 18 years with the Montrose library. Now she's deputy director of the Western Colorado Alliance for Community Action. She talks with KVNF about grassroots organizing on the Western Slope — and the Alliance's Power Forward conference, coming to Grand Junction on August 29. -
Bear encounters are becoming increasingly common in Paonia, and the situation took a deadly turn last week when a resident shot and killed a bear in his backyard. -
Artist Karen Floyd is turning old unused newspaper boxes into free art exchanges. The first News to Muse box is up at Gambles Hardware in Hotchkiss, and Floyd wants them in every town in Colorado. -
If you’ve noticed more bear sightings lately, you’re not imagining it. Colorado Parks & Wildlife is reporting a major spike in bear activity statewide. Several Western Slope communities are scrambling to reduce human caused attractants before the situation becomes even more intense.
