Colorado River Basin

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond

KDNK News Director Morgan Neely has Tuesday's updates, including a look at recently released quarterly fundraising numbers in the upcoming 2024 Third Congressional District race between Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch.

Host Bill Kight talks with the semi-retired Ken Neubecker, who has worked on water and river issues for more than 25 years. Neubecker is the former executive director of the Western Rivers Institute.

KDNK news reporter Hattison Rensberry brings listeners news about the Colorado River Upper Basin, local housing options that may be in the near future, and an audio obituary for Wick Moses

Water officials across the West have been negotiating a crisis on the Colorado River. Drought is putting pressure on the 7-state basin, and the nation’s two largest reservoirs recently reached record lows.

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Friday's news, including the director of High Rockies Harm Reduction reacting to Garfield County Commissioners' comments that harm reduction is "enabling" — comments that some in the community have called "insenstive" and even "heartless."

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.

Six of the seven states that use water from the Colorado River proposed a way for the federal government to cut back on water use and protect dropping water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

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