Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or LSD to reduce anxiety, stress and depression.

KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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The cost of housing in Colorado’s mountain towns is so expensive, many workers can’t afford rent. One program in Frisco offers an unusual solution – a parking lot that allows people to park and sleep in their vehicles.
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Education leaders across Colorado are grappling with how to respond to the Trump administration's immigration policies. They recently got help from a Nebraska superintendent who saw his own community shaken by an immigration raid two decades ago. He shares the lessons he learned, and his advice for educators in the months ahead.
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Galeton Elementary School will be closed the entire week due to an incident at an oil well in Weld County.
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President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land has withdrawn her nomination. The move follows revelations that nominee Kathleen Sgamma, who has ties to Denver, criticized the Republican president in 2021 for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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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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A 0.5% fee would be imposed under House Bill 1302 on every home insurance policy in Colorado, unless a house meets certain wildfire mitigation standards
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The school closings are a way for the district to address declining enrollment.
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Under pressure from survivors and lawmakers, Colorado struggling to address huge delays in evidence testing.
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Utah lawmakers have given the state more voice in negotiations over the Colorado and Bear rivers. The move, however, has some environmentalists concerned about the sensitive multi-state agreements that govern the rivers.
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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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