Emma Vanden Einde

1 week ago | kunc.org | Emma Vanden Einde

In the past, Fort Collins baker Elizabeth Meyers used synthetic dyes to match colors for weddings and birthday parties. But it felt strange to her. “There's just a lot of beautiful colors in nature, and it seems weird to me to want to make food a color that the food isn't normally,” Meyers said. Get top headlines and KUNC reporting directly to your mailbox each week when you subscribe to In The NoCo. Now, Meyers rarely uses dyes at her wholesale shop, I d’Eclair! Pastry.

2 weeks ago | kunc.org | Emma Vanden Einde

State officials predict Colorado will see “normal” fire conditions this summer. “We do not anticipate anything other than a busy year,” Stan Hilkey, the executive director for the Colorado Department of Public Safety, said at the state wildfire outlook press conference Thursday. Southeast Colorado faces heightened wildfire risk the rest of this month. The southwestern part of the state will be at high risk later in the summer due to drought and dry conditions.

3 weeks ago | kunc.org | Emma Vanden Einde

On a bright, sunny morning at the Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, several state and local agencies gather around a map to get a briefing about the South Sheep Fire near Ralph Price Reservoir. It’s a fake fire, but they want to run through training like it’s the real deal. “In the incident action plan, there’s…the incident objectives, which would be stated like they would be on a wildland fire,” Erin Doyle, operation specialist with Boulder Fire Rescue, said to the crews.

4 weeks ago | kunc.org | Emma Vanden Einde

Colorado State University has made changes on its campuses following the Trump Administration’s guidelines to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The university's changes stem from the Dear Colleague Letter that was sent out in February by the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. The letter states that K-12 schools and higher education institutions have discriminated against students based on race and should not distribute benefits based on race.

1 month ago | kunc.org | Emma Vanden Einde

It’s hard to discuss gardening in Northern Colorado without Tom Throgmorton coming up. He was always sharing gardening and plant advice – including on KUNC as a former contributor for a couple of decades. He'd record tips and tricks on his tape recorder in his basement. “I thought it was the coolest thing: my uncle was on the radio,” Dan Sapienza, his nephew, said in an email to KUNC. “As I got older, being related to him became a claim to fame in town.