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1 week ago | 
rmpbs.org | Joshua Vorse |Amanda Horvath |Ziyi Xu |Alec Berg
Rocky Mountain PBS is producing a documentary about hot springs in Colorado. This and other stories will examine the history and culture around hot springs, and what they mean to Coloradans and visitors today. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado is home to more than 100 hot springs in Colorado. But next door to Glenwood Hot Springs — and 30 feet underground — sits a natural vapor cave, the only one like it in the state.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
rmpbs.org | Kyle Cooke |Cormac McCrimmon |Carly Rose |Amanda Horvath
DENVER — “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain famously said. In Denver, it often caws. Every year since 2022, local journalists reported on an annual phenomenon: thousands of crows laying claim to entire blocks of downtown Denver, defecating in such staggering amounts that whole sidewalks have the appearance of a haphazard white-wash. First it was Denverite, then Westword and, most recently, the Denver Gazette. Allow Rocky Mountain PBS to join this media murder.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Carly Rose |Amanda Horvath |Chase McCleary
DENVER — Chef Sandra Ruiz Parrilla guided her knife like the bow of a cello virtuoso. The beef tongue dribbled with juice after cooking overnight. “Once they're cooked, we have to peel them then cut them,” said Ruiz Parilla, as she sliced beef tongue into bite-sized pieces for a tasting event last week at the National Western Stock Show. Her menu featured steamed beef tongue, braised beef cheek and beef heart in red chile.
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May 3, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Amanda Horvath |Peter D. Vo
During 2020, Whiteman estimates she went to the refuge around 100 times, or about twice a week. She knows the refuge so well, she has to challenge herself to slow down when she takes another trip around it. “I remember things that happen in various places like, I remember I saw the marshes by the lakes with the redwing blackbirds. There's like hundreds of them this time of year, and they're all hollering for their mates, and they live in those marshes,” said Whiteman as an example.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
aspenpublicradio.org | Carly Rose |Amanda Horvath
At Confluence Park in downtown Denver, where the South Platte River meets Cherry Creek, dogs splashed in the rushing water, skateboarders practiced tricks on the concrete steps and about a dozen people gathered to unpack the area’s brutal history through an interactive theater performance.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Amanda Horvath
The park is regarded as Denver’s birthplace, where more than 165 years ago, prospectors — many of them white — set up a temporary camp in their search for gold. Historically, the park and surrounding areas were a gathering place for the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, who gained — and never technically lost — sovereignty over the land in a treaty almost a decade prior to the prospectors’ settlement. Tensions ran high as white settlers encroached on Native land.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Amanda Horvath
AURORA, Colo. — A music room, places for sports, computers to use for homework – all ideas from sixth graders brainstorming what they want from Aurora’s new proposed youth center. The kids, who are all students at Aurora West Preparatory Academy, also suggested more altruistic ideas such as a club to help pick up trash around their neighborhoods or a mental health room staffed with a counselor. “Yeah, the counselors there can help you with what resources that you need.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Amanda Horvath
DENVER — Mention wolves in Colorado and you’ll get a wide range of passionate responses. “Most of the conflict around wolves isn't necessarily that direct conflict between people and wolves, but rather it's conflict among people, among stakeholders with very differing opinions about wolves,” said Kevin Crooks, wildlife professor at Colorado State University with a Ph.D. in biology.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Amanda Horvath
More than 700 people signed the petition since Schwartz posted it in December. Signers online mention their need to go to Colorado Springs often for health care, shopping and traveling to the Colorado Springs airport. Some also mentioned it would be good for tourists interested in coming to Chaffee County. The new proposed route is shown in red on this map that also includes the current Bustang lines.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Amanda Horvath |Alexis Kikoen
The family, who most recently lived in Colombia, said they arrived in the United States on Dec. 1 after spending four months traveling thousands of miles from South America. They said they were detained in El Paso, Texas for a few days before getting a bus ticket to Denver. Pérez then said the Denver Department of Human Services gave them a plane ticket to New York, hoping that city, with more resources, would be able to care for them.
