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The KDNK News Team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley...and beyond.

Chocolate is one of America’s most popular treats, you'll find it in every bakery and grocery store across Colorado. But the long process behind your candy bar starts sometimes over a thousand miles away in the jungles of Thailand or Ghana where the finicky cacao tree is able to grow. Since 2019 Pollinator Chocolate in Carbondale, Colorado has been taking select cocoa beans and turning them into a confectionary that goes above and beyond.

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.

Kirk Siegler got his start reporting for public radio right here in the Roaring Fork Valley at Aspen Public Radio. and on the Front Range. Now, he’s returning to Carbondale to visit with KDNK listeners. Help support the KDNK newsroom with your ticket purchase to meet Kirk Siegler in person in the intimate setting of the Crystal Theater on Carbondale's Main Street.

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

News from late September through early October covering topics from wildfire recovery to Mountain Rescue Aspen's recovery of a stranded base jumper.

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

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.

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