San Luis Valley

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

Author Ted Conover is no stranger to Colorado. He grew up in Denver and then wrote about his two-year stint in Aspen in his book Whiteout. The immersive journalist's latest book also looks at Colorado, this time a very different part of the state. In his new book Cheap Land Colorado, Off-Gridders at America's Edge, he writes about his experience over four years on the high plains of the San Luis Valley.

Agriculture is more than what we eat - it has the power to shape culture and socio-economic divides. This has played out in many areas of the state - from…

A warm spring has already melted much of the limited snowpack that sits high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in southern Colorado. Water is already...