High Country News

The Regional Roundup, a production of the Rocky Mountain Community Radio Coalition. This week's edition features a discussion with High Country News journalist Nick Bowlin about how western resort towns risk being loved to death. Also, John Burg speaks about his experience of being lost, trapped, and eventually rescued from Zion National Park. And, we go inside public libraries in Moab, UT and Boulder, CO.

Formations in a Wyoming cave that are hundreds of thousands of years old, are helping scientists better understand the climate crisis. The research is paired with information gathered from neighboring lake sediment to help inform climate modeling.

KVNF's Gavin Dahl speaks with two reporters at Paonia-based nonprofit magazine High Country News about their latest stories focused on specific Colorado…

Your News, Your Community was a special live broadcast on Saturday, October 13th, featuring (back row) Will Grandbois of The Sopris Sun, Mark Duggan of…

Host Bill Kight talks to Cally Carswell, High Country News contributing editor, about a sense of place. You can find Carswell's essay in the August 6th…

High Country News is offering subscriptions to classrooms in the Roaring Fork Valley with help from the Environment Foundation. KDNK’s Raleigh Burleigh…

Five people died climbing Capitol Peak last summer within six weeks. High Country News correspondent Sarah Tory explores the impacts of social media on…

The Shoshone Hydroelectric Power Plant, just east of Glenwood Springs along the Colorado River, was built in 1905. It generates 15 megawatts of power and…

Pipelines carrying oil and other hazardous materials leak or spill every day, says High Country News reporter Jonathan Thompson. He recently published an…

On this edition of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK's Gavin Dahl interviews Leah Todd about her article for High Country News: The Big Swing: Why a blue…