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Young people leave their homes to explore and learn everywhere, not just in rural America. However, rural spaces offer some unique advantages that inspire many to return and bolster their communities.
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A recent paper explored the challenges exacerbated by climate change faced by Latino farmworkers in Idaho, which are comparable to the issues faced by such workers across the West.
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Area 420, a 420-acre collection of independently-owned cannabis farms, raises questions for the future for its 108-person home town of Moffat.
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Native Americans have one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country but account for only 1.5% of North America’s population.
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Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers rode a demonstration train Thursday in a renewed push to develop the Front Range Passenger Rail from Fort Collins to Pueblo. The northern section, from Fort Collins to Denver, could open to the public as soon as 2027.
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A national center for Native radio and TV broadcasters is leading an effort to establish a national alert code for missing and endangered adults.
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Immigrants from Mexico, Cambodia, Germany, and Russia recently gathered at the La Plata County Courthouse for their ceremony.
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A plan to ask President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to create a 400,000-acre national monument along the Dolores River in Montrose and Mesa counties stirs concerns over crowds, mining, and motorized access.
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A group of voters was seeking to bar Trump from running under the 14th Amendment’s ‘Insurrection Clause’.
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The Forest Service’s recently released “Strategy to Expand Prescribed Fire Training in the West” document is blunt: “The prescribed fire implementation environment continues to grow in complexity, It reads, whereas the ability of practitioners to practice and hone their expertise has lagged, particularly in the Western United States.” The newly established Western Prescribed Fire Training Center is a major effort to address that workforce issue.
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For the second year in a row, high school students skipped class and headed to the statehouse to demand legislative solutions to gun violence. State lawmakers are considering several gun control bills, including one that would designate locations like schools, churches, recreation centers and the State Capitol as gun-free zones.
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A coalition in Colorado is racing to gather enough signatures to put Proposition 89 on the November ballot ahead of an April deadline. Several Denver-based groups were in Aspen this month collecting signatures.