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

On this month's Municipal Matters we're exploring housing and affordability in the City of Rifle and checking in with Leadville after the election.

Earlier this week the Carbondale Mayor stopped by the KDNK studio to recap the latest town meeting on Tuesday evening. KDNK’s Marilyn Gleason brings news of some town services that will now cost more.

The City of Rifle held a community meeting this week to discuss the city’s recently adopted Housing Needs Assessment Study.

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

With election day fast approaching after a severe wildfire season, the Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District is looking to the ballot box for assistance.

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

7A is a regional proposal that would utilize funds from an increased sales tax to create more opportunities for early childhood care throughout Garfield, Pitkin, and southwest Eagle Counties.

There will be a free screening of 'A Decent Home' tonight (10/3/25) in Carbondale's Third Street Center, as well as a speaker panel. Any donations will go towards the purchase efforts of the Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park.Mobile home parks are a new front in the struggle for affordability, as they are snatched up by distant investors who ratchet up rents for the lower-income families who live there. Two mobile home parks in the RFV are in a high-stakes fight to control their destiny on a short deadline. April Long stopped by the KDNK studios to tell about a new front in the battle to hold onto affordable neighborhoods from Aspen to Parachute.

In late July the City of Glenwood Springs hosted a virtual town hall webinar on homelessness. The meeting came about a month after a fire broke out in a rugged gully northeast of Walmart, causing a nearby apartment building to be evacuated. Although the fire lasted less than a day and reached only one and a half acres in size, its proximity to the town and likely origin in a homeless camp caught officials’ attention. The panel included Glenwood’s Chief of Public Safety, Fire Marshall, Parks and Recreation director, the District Attorney and Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario.KDNK reporters Lily Jones and Amy Hadden Marsh and News Director Marilyn Gleason all attended the Zoom meeting separately. In Part 2 of our reporter's roundtable, Amy Hadden Marsh digs into the private property inhabited by the unhoused at the Palmer Fire, and Marilyn Gleason remarks on law enforcement's 'revolving door.'