Over the weekend, enhanced federal unemployment benefits put in place during the pandemic officially , which, as from the Colorado Sun explains, means thousands of Coloradans will no longer receive an extra $300 per week. And as the U.S. continues to grapple with COVID-19, another epidemic is on the rise — deaths due to drug overdoses. The Mountain West °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Bureau's Madelyn Beck begins a series about the dangers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid responsible for many of these deaths.
As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, we look back at some of our coverage from the one-year anniversary. In 2002, KUNC’s Brian Larson visited the to better understand why the towers collapsed. And while a recent effort by a Fort Collins mobile home park residents to purchase their own community failed, we check in with Andy Kadlec, program director for the housing nonprofit , to learn why.
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