Emergency workers took four days to stop a major leak at a Chevron well pad in Galeton. Nearby residents are still evacuated and a local elementary school lost a week of school.

KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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You might be familiar with talk therapy, art therapy, or even music therapy. But have you heard of cuddle therapy? Today on In The NoCo we’ll hear how cuddle therapy works and how it helps people get more comfortable with physical touch.
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A glut of unused office space in downtown Denver could be transformed into affordable living units. That’s according to a recent study that looked at converting empty office space to increase the available housing in the city. We explore that proposal, on today’s In The NoCo.
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Democratic lawmakers want to expand protections, even as the federal government moves rapidly in the opposite direction.
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A new bill in Colorado aims to prevent bison poaching after government-sponsored killing of bison nearly led to the animal’s extinction a century ago.
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Galeton Elementary School will be closed the entire week due to an incident at an oil well in Weld County.
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President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land has withdrawn her nomination. The move follows revelations that nominee Kathleen Sgamma, who has ties to Denver, criticized the Republican president in 2021 for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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A 0.5% fee would be imposed under House Bill 1302 on every home insurance policy in Colorado, unless a house meets certain wildfire mitigation standards
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The school closings are a way for the district to address declining enrollment.
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An uncertain future of new tariffs has the Colorado outdoor industry concerned. New and longtime brands are now preparing for what's next.
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Colorado was long considered a haven for gender-affirming care. But under this Trump administration, hospitals in the state have limited the treatments available for people under 19. Some services have been restored, but trans youth and their families say the state isn’t the rock they thought it was.
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A new study reveals snow in the Rocky Mountains is contaminated with mercury and other metals, and that pollution has historic causes.
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The Trump administration wants to speed up data center construction to support the rise of the artificial intelligence industry.
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The percentage of adults in the West who say they’ve been personally affected by an extreme weather event, including wildfires and high heat, jumped 13% in the last two years.
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Utah lawmakers have given the state more voice in negotiations over the Colorado and Bear rivers. The move, however, has some environmentalists concerned about the sensitive multi-state agreements that govern the rivers.
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