Rocky Mountain Community Radio

The heat wave comes in the midst of an already challenging winter for the Rocky Mountains, compounding months of warm and dry conditions.

Cross-country ski areas are doing their best to adapt, but they lack the same tools available in the far bigger downhill skiing industry.

Rain Enhancement Technologies, a private company, is testing a different approach to cloud seeding at a couple of project sites in the Rocky Mountains. The method is known as ionization cloud seeding and doesn't use silver iodide.

Care and Share, a food bank nonprofit in southern Colorado, helps rural communities like Silver Cliff address food insecurity by bringing the grocery store to residents.

Getting an abortion is often a daunting process. Abortion doulas can help, offering emotional and logistical support. One organization is trying to expand to rural Colorado, including the Roaring Fork Valley.

Utah's congressional delegation is using the Congressional Review Act to throw out the resource management plan for the nearly 2 million-acre landscape. Congress has not used the CRA to undo resource management plans before.

Longtime newspaper photographer Brad Boner used to drive 10 minutes from his home in Victor, Idaho, several times a week for hydration infusions on the off-weeks of chemotherapy treatment. After the clinic closed in January, he and others are spending additional hours on the road for the same care. Hear that story and others on this week's Regional Roundup.

Changes to the hunting and trapping of furbearing animals on Colorado's public lands are the subject of an upcoming CPW Commission meeting. Officials expect a high volume of attendees.

The Democratic and Republican parties in Colorado are holding precinct caucuses between March 3 and March 7. These are small, neighborhood-level meetings where party members gather in-person or on zoom.