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KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including longtime KDNK DJ Michael Francisco filing a racial discrimination suit against City Market and the Kroger Corporation for his arrest at the Carbondale grocer on Christmas Eve 2020. And, representatives of the Ute Mountain Utes want their 20,000 acre ranch near Gunnison designated as a reservation, while the Northwestern Band of the Shoshonee in Southeastern Idaho is changing the legacy of a tract of land that hides a fateful history.

News Director Morgan Neely brings listeners Tuesday's news, including a backlash to proposed snow day changes in the Roaring Fork School District. And, the U.S. Senate discusses how to address the nation's urban-rural digital divide.

Dr. Daniel Kaffine, a professor of economics and a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at CU Boulder, discusses increased tax incentives and the substantial price decrease in the past 10 years that is incentivizing more people to install solar panels on their homes.

Wyoming researchers show that utility-scale solar developments can directly and indirectly affect habitat and create movement barriers for ungulates such as deer, elk and pronghorn.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West

KDNK's news team brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West.

Holy Cross Energy announced this week a partnership with Colorado Mountain College and Massachusetts-based renewable energy developer, Ameresco. Vice…

On November 19, the The Roaring Fork Valley chapter of the US Green Building Council hosted a webinar on creating energy resiliency in the Valley.…

Massai leader Lukas Kariongi Ole-Simanjiro, from Terrat, Tanzania, visited KDNK ahead of events in Carbondale on Sunday. He spoke with KDNK's Amy Hadden…

The Governor signed seven clean energy bills into law last week. One measure could help people who can't install solar panels, either because they rent or…