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Pitkin County has developed a temporary plan to provide relief to those who lost SNAP benefits on the first of this month.

As immigration raids are taking place across Colorado communities, local law enforcement is struggling to interpret a new law and strike a balance with the federal government. Ryan Spencer is a public safety reporter for a number of outlets across the Western Slope. He recently published an article about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and which Sheriff’s departments they are communicating with, and those they aren’t.

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

No Kings protests are returning this Saturday to Glenwood Springs and the entire country. No Kings is organized by a national grassroots movement called Indivisible with thousands of local chapters across the US.

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.

The Sopris Sun’s James Steindler attended last weekend’s vigil for late conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Glenwood Springs. He brings us this audio postcard.

Wilderness Workshop, based in Carbondale since 2004, has a storied history and legacy of big wins for mountain landscapes and the environment. Founded back in 1967 by Joy Caudill, Dottie Fox and Connie Harvey, this powerhouse trio of Aspen women convinced Congress to designate capital-W Wilderness in the Hunter-Fryingpan, Collegiate Peaks, Raggeds and West Elks, and doubled the size of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area. That was in the 1970s and 80s. A string of policy victories followed. More recently, energy has focused on staving off ravages from gas and oil extraction, including the hard-fought cancelling of gas leases in the Thompson Divide outside Carbondale.The hard work is not over for Wilderness Workshop. Advocacy director Erin Riccio (RICH-eeyo) just returned from Washington D.C. She stopped by KDNK this morning to tell news host Mike Lemmer about the trip, and new threats to wilderness and communities from the energy sector.

Thousands of people in the U.S. Department of Agriculture were fired in February as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce. Although wildland firefighters were exempt from the mass firing, many fired federal employees had secondary wildfire-fighting responsibilities.  This came during a busy wildfire season in Western Colorado, which included the fourth-largest wildfire in state history. Now the White River National Forest is hoping to fill fourteen new positions.