Poet Andrea Gibson passed away from cancer at their home in Boulder early Monday morning.

KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Remember the "balloon boy" story? One day in 2009, emergency crews chased a silver balloon that looked like a flying saucer as it floated high above Northern Colorado – because they thought a 6-year-old boy was inside. The story is viewed as a notorious hoax. A new documentary from Netflix takes a fresh look at what happened.
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Tubing is a popular summer activity on the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs. But this year’s tubing season could be one of the shortest in recent memory, due to warm temperatures and low stream flows in the river. We learn why this is happening on In The NoCo.
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Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet has raised more than $1.7 million since entering the Colorado gubernatorial race.
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Some agriculture groups worry it could make it less likely to get a full Farm Bill passed in this Congress.
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The absence of Medicaid reimbursements would reduce the STRIDE team’s capacity to serve homeless patients in the Denver area.
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A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display. The find happened when the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was drilling to study possible geothermal heat for the building.
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The Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids meteor showers, which will both peak July 30, also coincide with a third meteor shower.
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If the partnership happens, plant could use 90 tons of waste per day to convert into aviation fuel.
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The Forest Service's new chief recently published a letter that called for wildfires to be suppressed "as swiftly as possible." That may sound prudent to many, but it raised eyebrows among some who study fire policy. They worried that it may signal a return to aggressive suppression that has been linked to growing wildfire severity.
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Town leaders say the purchase will boost local economic development and will allow it to better support mountain ski employees.
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This comes amid Trump administration cuts to special services on the 988 hotline.
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With 16-hour days for weeks straight, long separation from friends and family, and regular exposure to serious immediate and long-term risks, wildland fire pushes people to both their physical and mental limits. But the recently launched federal Wildland Fire Therapy Service is now available to help those workers ease the mental strain of battling wildfires.
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The pace of booking for lodging in Western U.S. mountain destinations slowed for the sixth month in a row in May.
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Birthright citizenship laws could be different in each Mountain West state after the U.S. Supreme Court reduced judicial powers.
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