Adam Burke

On December 4, NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations faced off against the Trump Administration in federal court. After reviewing a transcript of the hearing, First Amendment litigator and scholar Robert Corn-Revere said that NPR's lawsuit appears to have merit.

We hear from KSUT Executive Director Tami Graham and Attorney Steve Zansberg, who represents the co-plaintiffs. They talk about KSUT's decision to join the case and what’s at stake for public radio stations. We also hear from NPR correspondent David Folkenflik on the December 4 court hearing.

When they went searching for a rare apple tree in Montezuma County's remnant orchards 20 years ago, Jude and Addie Schuenemeyer had no idea the hunt would change the course of their lives.

History is under our feet and all around us: old buildings, streets, statues, and signs. We drive by remnants of the past every day, without giving them a second thought. This is the story of one man’s close encounter with a forgotten piece of history, from the Magic City of the Southwest.

For more than 50 years, Ed Singer has used oil paints on canvas to depict life in the Navajo Nation. In a style that is both realistic and abstract, Singer’s paintings portray the Indigenous experience using classical European painting techniques, and modern style.

A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.

For more than seven decades, coal and the energy made from it have become entwined with Navajo communities, culture, and the Navajo Nation economy. A recent demolition of the smokestacks on the San Juan Generating Station near Kirtland, NM, showed the complexities of the Navajo relationship to coal.

Seniors at a Durango high school who lost a friend to overdose channeled their grief into passing a law to make it legal for students to carry Narcan.

Two years ago, Zoe Ramsey and Niko Peterson lost a friend to fentanyl poisoning. Through heartbreak and resolve, they realized that more could be done to protect teens in Durango and across Colorado.

The new law grew out of a teen harm reduction movement in Durango, and several Durango teens helped write the bill. It provides good samaritan protections for teens and eliminates liability risk for schools and districts.