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Longtime KDNK DJ Michael Francisco was dropped to the floor and arrested at City Market in Carbondale on Christmas Eve 2020. All charges were later dropped. Now he's suing City Market and the Kroger Corporation for racial discrimination.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including longtime KDNK DJ Michael Francisco filing a racial discrimination suit against City Market and the Kroger Corporation for his arrest at the Carbondale grocer on Christmas Eve 2020. And, representatives of the Ute Mountain Utes want their 20,000 acre ranch near Gunnison designated as a reservation, while the Northwestern Band of the Shoshonee in Southeastern Idaho is changing the legacy of a tract of land that hides a fateful history.

“We want to have true and meaningful consultation,” said Shaun Chapoose, chairman of the Ute Tribe. Many of the 30 federally-recognized Indian tribes in the Colorado River basin have asked for greater inclusion as the region negotiates how water will be allocated in the face of a shrinking supply.

Monday, December 19, 2022

KDNK’s news reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West.

AZYEP Talks 2022 Highlights

Beth Wysong and Adele Craft, Executive Director and Program Manager of the Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program talk about program highlights for 2022 and look forward to 2023.

A pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park are spotted from a wildlife tracking plane

Thursday, December 22, 2022

KDNK's Hattison Rensberry has the news, including wolf reintroduction planned for the Roaring Fork Valley, meth in the air in the Boulder Library, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife listing the Whitebark Pine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Plus, a look at Paonia's water moratorium four years in. And ... will it be a white Christmas in the Mountain West?

Monday, February 6, 2023

KDNK’s reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West

Get Out! | Ski for Sisu

Host Morgan Neely talks with the Mt. Sopris Nordic Council about their upcoming fundraising event, the 31st Annual Ski for Sisu.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

KDNK’s reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West on wolf reintroduction, agricultural equipment maintenance, and Consensual Improv's return to TACAW.

A sign installed by a resident of Lawson Hill, an affordable-housing community just outside Telluride. Over the last half decade, an increase in emotional support animals has become a source of tension in the community, and E-S-A dog owners are beginning to speak out about what they say is an issue of housing discrimination and disability rights. A state agency found the dog owners have legitimate concerns.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including Eagle and Pitkin counties coming to an agreement on housing Aspen inmates.

Dimensions in Diversity | Autism and Adventures

On this month’s episode of Dimensions in Diversity, host Kaleb Cook speaks with Kayla Holthouse of Ascendigo Adventures Program. They talk about autism, adaptive adventures, and the neurodivergent movement. Support for Dimensions in Diversity comes from AspenOUT. In-kind support comes from Cook Inclusive Company.

Funds from opiate crisis settlements with pharmaceutical companies are starting to roll into rural America. The five-county region that includes Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield, Summit, and Lake counties is set to receive $5 million dollars—or about $280,000 per year for the next 17+ years.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including Colorado beginning to distribute funds from pharmaceutical companies as part of legal settlements related to the opioid crisis. Also, we speak with a group of Future Farmers of America students who made the trip from Olathe to Rifle for a wolf reintroduction meeting.

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