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Health system collaborates with community partners as it plans to open Precourt Healing Center this spring. -
More than two dozen residents argued that city council members would be ignoring will of the voters if they put measure on April 1 ballot after it passed by 54% in November 2024. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Olivia Prentzel and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below. -
January is Radon Awareness Month. Health officials in northern Colorado are encouraging more people to regularly test their homes for the toxic gas. -
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says there are levels of hydrogen sulfide near the Plate River Biogas facility. They do not believe there is a health risk to those living nearby. -
When humidity levels were low, study participants were more likely to show poor kidney function in health exams. -
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Colorado may rank at the top with regard to physical fitness. But when it comes to mental health, Coloradans are struggling. On today鈥檚 In The NoCo we discuss how a culture of drug and alcohol use in mountain resort communities can negatively affect the mental health of those who live and work there. -
A recent paper explored the challenges exacerbated by climate change faced by Latino farmworkers in Idaho, which are comparable to the issues faced by such workers across the West. -
The governments of Boulder County and the town of Superior say increasing operations at the airport near Broomfield, especially training flights for student pilots, are causing 鈥渆xcessive noise,鈥� dropping leaded fuel over their residents鈥� homes and threatening their 鈥渉ealth, safety and welfare.鈥� -
Teens in Summit County are weighing in on the future of their community as the local government prepares a new strategic plan. One of the teens' top requests: more places to spend time outside of school and sports. -
The independent office that helps Coloradans access behavioral health services is downsizing as the need for help increases.
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!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d6510bf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1044+0+1/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
