Colorado officials in recent months have investigated three different scandals involving problems with laboratory tests. Two of them involve monitoring for water contamination, and one involved tainted DNA tests in criminal cases. So how concerned should Colorado residents be? We dig into what鈥檚 happening, today on In The NoCo.

The City of Wheat Ridge is planning to install automated speed cameras in early 2025 to improve road safety and free up police officers for other tasks. The cameras will be installed in three locations and will issue $40 fines for speeding drivers.

Every day in Colorado, we bike, drive or walk on streets that were designed using outdated research and bad assumptions. That鈥檚 the premise of the provocative book 鈥淜illed by a Traffic Engineer.鈥� Author Wesley Marshall, who teaches at CU Denver, discusses how we should think differently about traffic safety in the third installment of In The NoCo鈥檚 Holiday Book Club.

Questions about how the alert system is being used and how seriously the public takes the alerts are being raised amongst the CSU campus community.

There鈥檚 been a drop in the number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths on Colorado鈥檚 roadways. Colorado Sun reporter Olivia Prentzel said preliminary data from the state Department of Transportation showed fewer deaths in the first six months of this year compared to last year, which ended up being an all-time high.

Colorado鈥檚 waters have been deadly so far this year. The state Department of Parks & Wildlife reports at least 33 water-related deaths -- 17 of those in reservoirs and 15 in moving water. The agency has tried to stop the trend with increased messaging on safety. And they've been issuing hundreds of tickets to recreators not wearing life jackets. Colorado Sun reporter Jason Blevins joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this troubling situation.

Every day in Colorado, we bike, drive or walk on streets that were designed using outdated research and bad assumptions. That鈥檚 the premise of the new book, 鈥淜illed by a Traffic Engineer.鈥� We talk with the author about how we should be thinking about traffic safety.

The Colorado Department of Public Safety recently announced that it has hired 30-year law enforcement veteran Arron Julian to head the newly formed Office of Liaison for Missing or Murdered Indigenous Relatives.

As communities reckon with deep problems in policing highlighted by the murder of George Floyd, some advocates are working toward what they say is one solution: achieving gender parity.

Before the call came, Chuck Cerasoli had poured his second cup of black coffee, finished settling into a leather armchair and taken a few deep breaths. He鈥�