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/ A miniature model shows what a bronze statue will look like as part of a new Sand Creek Massacre memorial at the Colorado state Capitol. A statue honoring victims of Colorados Sand Creek Massacre is likely to soon replace a Civil War monument on the west end of the state Capitol that was toppled during protests last summer. Descendants of the massacre see the steps of the Capitol as an ideal spot for the Sand Creek memorial because historians say it was where soldiers displayed victims’ bo...

Experts who studied the state’s response to the Spanish flu of 1918 say history is not repeating itself when it comes to how state lawmakers are responding to the latest outbreak.

During the past ten months, KSUT has continued to broaden its scope of local and regional news and information, complementing the stations national and international news from NPR and BBC. In doing so, KSUT has hired its own reporters, and actively engaged several content partners, strengthening its available reporting in the Four Corners and Rocky Mountain West. These partnerships include: The Colorado News Collaborative, COLab, uniting journalists from over 100 news outlets to strengthen tr...

/ Gov. Jared Polis delivers a statewide address on the COVID-19 pandemic on April 8, 2020. As the pandemic nears its one year mark, Gov. Jared Polis has issued more than 260 executive orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19. He says he can’t wait until they all expire. “You know each one is difficult, and thoughtful and predicated by science,” he said in an interview with Rocky Mountain Community Radio. But as the crisis has dragged on, the governor and his administration have been...

Published December 14, 2020 at 6:22 PM MST David Zalubowski AP Photo, Pool Gov. Jared Polis, right, trails the cart bearing the state’s first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to a freezer with Patrick Belou, logisitics specialist at the laboratory for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, early Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in east Denver. The state received 975 frozen vials of the vaccine, which will be distributed immediately. The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines arrive...