Alec Berg

5 days ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg |Peter D. Vo |Joshua Vorse

AURORA, Colo. — When Lena Silva first saw the line of cars at the Air Care Colorado emissions testing facility, she assumed her GPS had taken her to the wrong location. “There must be some sort of event,” Silva remembered thinking. On March 28, cars stretched for three football fields back to South Parker road. That was just the line to enter the gate. Silva was busy applying for jobs in product management, but she needed an emissions test to complete her car registration.

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Joshua Vorse |Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Alec Berg

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Students at Grand Junction High School have finished their first academic year in the new, $145 million building.  In 2021, Mesa County voters approved a bond measure to replace the old high school, which dated back to 1956 and had serious foundation and structural issues that were impossible to repair. Over the years, the old school expanded, sprawling to seven separate buildings. The new facility consolidates the campus into a 250,000 square-foot, three-story school.

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Alec Berg |Ziyi Xu

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Since Centaurus High School banned cell phones in January, principal Carlyn Carroll said she can hear the difference. At lunchtime on May 6, Jenga blocks crashed to the ground, pucks whistled across air hockey tables and chatter rebounded off the walls of one of the school’s activity rooms. “It used to be really quiet. Kids would be on their phones. They’d be sitting at a table, and every single one of them would have a screen up,” said Carroll.

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Alec Berg

DENVER — When English Labrador retriever Galway dons her purple checkered vest and makes her rounds through the airport terminal, she’s officially on duty. But unlike most working dogs, Galway’s uniform invites people to pet her. In fact, that’s her whole job. Galway is one of more than 115 dogs (and one cat) in the Denver International Airport’s Canine Airport Therapy Squad, or DEN CATS. The DEN CATS program is the largest of its kind in the United States.

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Peter D. Vo |Joshua Vorse

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — As Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad to expand passenger rail service through the historic Moffat Tunnel, a 6.2-mile passage through the Continental Divide, Yampa Valley leaders celebrated the possibilities it could bring for decades to come.