Months after discovering a toxic pipeline leak at a natural gas plant on Parachute Creek, industry workers are continuing efforts to clear the creek water of chemicals. But as KDNK's Ed Williams reports, area scientists are raising questions about the dangers the cleanup methods pose to the health of on-site workers.
Earlier this week, the Carbondale trustees received public comments on how the Gordon Cooper library building should be used when the library moves to it's new home this summer. On the week's news brief, KDNK's Eric Skalac and Lynn Burton of the Sopris Sun break down some of the issues that will factor into the trustees' impending decision on the building.
Drought conditions persist across Colorado despite last month's moisture. According to Friday's USDA Colorado Department of Agriculture Market News, high winds in the southeastern part of the state mimicked Dust Bowl conditions, damaging an estimated 100,000 acres of topsoil and dirt-covered pasture.
On this week's Drought News, KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh talks with Pat McCarty, agricultural agent for Garfield County's CSU Extension Office, about what the drought means for ranchers and their communities.
The political polarization now gripping the United States didn't originate in Washington D.C. It took root in small communities across the country, places that over the last several decades have been populated by people with increasingly homogenous and extreme political views.
For this episode of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK's ongoing collaboration with the Paonia-based environmental magazine High Country News, Nelson Harvey asked Sierra Crane Murdoch about her cover story on the radical conservative politics of northern Idaho, and what happens in a place where a single political party has complete control.
A whole universe of music filtered through the intelligence and passion of your friends and neighbors, our 100 volunteer DJs. Old and new, from every continent and genre, the music on KDNK is truly rapturous. Welcome to Music Central at KDNK.
Poll
Should the USDA allow Colorado farmers to grow hemp?
Download mp3
