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2 days ago | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Carly Rose |Joshua Vorse |Cormac McCrimmon
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Families roared and clapped on a sunny Friday afternoon at Oakhurst Park when 120 women walked down a stage and accepted their diplomas after graduation from the Providers Advancing Student Outcomes (PASO) program. PASO, a 15-week program run by the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition, has supported family, friend and neighbor (FFN) child care providers for 19 years. Its most recent cohort graduated 120 participants, nearly twice as many as previous sessions.
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5 days ago | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg |Peter D. Vo |Carly Rose
BOULDER, Colo. — Michael Lawlor circled the lot at Eben G. Fine Park searching for a place to park. It was lunchtime on a Tuesday, but the summer’s first blast of 90-degree heat had drawn hordes of swimmers, sunbathers and call-out-sick-ers to the banks of Boulder Creek. Come spring, snowmelt rolls off the Indian Peaks and races down Boulder Canyon. When the water tumbles through town, kayakers and tubers launch themselves into its current.
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1 week ago | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Ziyi Xu
GLENDO, Wyo. — The rules of steer wrestling are simple enough: chase a runaway steer, leap off your horse and muscle the animal to the ground. “You better have your hammer cocked and like a little bit of contact,” said professional steer wrestler Austin Eller, 31, who began competing at 16 years old. But finding steers to wrestle is getting harder. The best steers come from Mexico.
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1 week ago | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Kyle Cooke |Carly Rose |Joshua Vorse
BOULDER, Colo. — When spring arrives, the irises at Long’s Gardens light up in a dazzling array of colors, their bearded blooms drooping like silk cloaks. Owner Catherine Long grows more than 1,000 varieties of iris, from miniature dwarf irises that top out at six inches, to tall, bearded irises that stretch three feet. Choosing which ones to grow can be tricky. Every year, horticulturists release hundreds of new varieties. But growing too many varieties can work against the sales.
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1 week ago | 
rmpbs.org | Kyle Cooke |Joshua Vorse |Peter D. Vo |Cormac McCrimmon
DENVER — Charlie Burrell, a jazz and classical bass player who became the first African-American member of a major American symphony, passed away Tuesday. He was 104 years old. Burrell was a fixture in Colorado’s music scene. His first orchestral career opportunity came from the then-Denver Symphony (now called the Colorado Symphony) in 1949.
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1 week ago | 
rmpbs.org | Peter D. Vo |Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg
DENVER — State officials are celebrating Colorado’s 150th birthday next year with a pedestrian bridge connecting the Colorado State Capitol to Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park. Spearheaded by Gov. Jared Polis’ office and designed by an out-of-state firm, the bridge is estimated to cost between $18-20 million. Renderings show the bridge curving over Lincoln Street, stretching more than 11,000 square feet. The project's location, cost and design have drawn some heavy criticism.
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2 weeks ago | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Peter D. Vo |Carly Rose |Cormac McCrimmon
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — After four decades as co-owner of Straightline Sports, Brett Lee has watched the Yampa River — the heart of his fishing gear business — change dramatically. While there are always outlying, lucky years, he said flows are almost always lower each year than the last. “It’s not good at all, but we have to adapt,” Lee said. As of April 1, the Yampa/White/Little Snake Basin saw 93% of its typical snowpack this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
rmpbs.org | Ziyi Xu |Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg |Carly Rose
DURANGO, Colo. — Heirs of more than 17,000 deceased Individual Indian Money account holders have until June 30, 2025, to submit probate documents and claim compensation from a federal class action settlement. Roughly $38 million remains unclaimed. The funds are part of the 2009 Cobell v. Salazar lawsuit, which determined the federal government mismanaged more than 300,000 trust accounts for Native American individuals.
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3 weeks ago | 
rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Joshua Vorse |Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar
DENVER — Kindergarteners through fifth graders walked out of Castro Elementary School for the last time Tuesday after an early dismissal, kicking off their summer vacation under gray, cloudy skies. The somber weather matched the bittersweet ending to the school year. After more than 30 years of welcoming students in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood, Castro Elementary is closed.
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3 weeks 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.
