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Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed reports of wolf depredation in Grand County earlier this week. A landowner, whose name and property location are not being released by CPW, called wildlife officers to report a dead calf. Officers conducted a field investigation, and confirmed a wolf-livestock depredation had occurred.

Community members express opposition to the closure of Delta Health's OB unit

FEATURE: The hearing to oust Trustee Bill Brunner from the Paonia Town Board took place over two days and lasted more than six hours.

On today’s KVNF Farm Friday we check in with Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey for our Western Water and Snowpack Update.

FEATURE: Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper have introduced the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act. The act aims to permanently protect key portions of the Gunnison Basin and the surrounding regions. The bill has the bipartisan support of six counties in Western Colorado, as well as the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and local municipalities.

FEATURE: All this week AND next week KVNF will air information on a number of measures on this year's ballot. Colorado voters will be deciding on 14 statewide ballot measures. For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, K-O-T-O's Julia Caulfield spoke with statehouse reporter Lucas Brady Woods about two measures related to changes in taxes.

FEATURE: Across the Mountain West, voters in several states recently supported protecting abortion access. And elsewhere there are legal battles, including in Wyoming, where a judge struck down two abortion bans. The decision hinged almost entirely on a constitutional right Republicans backed in response to the Affordable Care Act. The Mountain West News Bureau’s Hanna Merzbach explains.

FEATURE: Sandhill Cranes are making their annual migration through Western Colorado. KVNF's Brody Wilson captured some of their songs and has details on these birds that are traveling through our listening area.

FEATURE: States that use the Colorado River just wrapped up annual meetings in Las Vegas. It provided a rare look behind the curtain of tense negotiations about how to share the river’s shrinking water supply. But as KUNC’s Alex Hager reports, state negotiators are still deeply divided heading into uncertain political times.

Last month, an era ended in Hotchkiss when a local bookstore changed hands. Marty Durlin reports.