A judge halted construction to Denver Water's Gross Reservoir amid concerns over harm to the environment.

KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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You might be familiar with talk therapy, art therapy, or even music therapy. But have you heard of cuddle therapy? Today on In The NoCo we’ll hear how cuddle therapy works and how it helps people get more comfortable with physical touch.
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A glut of unused office space in downtown Denver could be transformed into affordable living units. That’s according to a recent study that looked at converting empty office space to increase the available housing in the city. We explore that proposal, on today’s In The NoCo.
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Colorado is officially launching an industry that has long been underground: psychedelic-assisted therapy. In the coming months, residents will be able to consume magic mushrooms on-site, at healing centers. Now, people are growing mushrooms and applying for licenses, as communities figure out where to put these businesses.
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The Greeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize the city attorney’s office to bring legal action against the neighboring community of Windsor, claiming that the smaller community has ignored a 17-year-old intergovernmental agreement on infrastructure.
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The In the NoCo podcast recently talked about why many homeowners are landscaping with native plants – and put out a call for YOUR questions about growing native plants in your yard. Today, our friends at the CSU Extension answer your questions – ranging from which seeds to buy, to how to restore native prairie vegetation.
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The worst part of a trip to the mountains is often sitting on I-70, waiting for traffic to start moving again. But a retired train conductor – who conducted the Winter Park Ski train – has a plan that, he says, would clear up congestion. It involves getting semi-trucks off the highway and onto railroad cars to make the trip across the Rockies.
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Over $7 million available to the county through opioid settlements with companies tied to opioid distribution.
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Commissioners in a rural New Mexico county say pets are being snatched from front yards and livestock are being killed by endangered Mexican gray wolves, prompting them to consider declaring a state of emergency.
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This comes as the insects are rapidly declining and are under consideration for Endangered Species Act protections.
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The proposal would give each park superintendent the authority to decide where micromobility devices can go. Some public lands groups worry they'll be permitted in environmentally-sensitive areas.
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A new scientific analysis shows the U.S. is generating more electricity from wind and solar than ever before, and several states in the Mountain West are helping lead the charge. However, the future growth of wind and solar is uncertain.
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Since a new law shuttered the state’s only procedural abortion clinic, its patients were referred to Colorado, Utah and Montana.
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In recent decades, wildfires have gotten larger and more intense, and community-destroying blazes are an increasingly common occurrence. But new research looking at centuries of wildfires shows that compared with fires in the 19th and earlier centuries, today’s blazes pale in comparison – at least in terms of size.
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A U.S. District judge said it was “not hard to imagine†that some horses and burros went to slaughter in his ruling that led to the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to shut down the adoption program.
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