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Aspen School District leaders, parents, and students debated how to mitigate excessive cell phone use during the school day at a cell phone town hall Thursday, March 7.

It was standing room only Tuesday evening as Aspen residents packed into the Pearl Pass conference room of City Hall for a conversation around emergency preparedness.

Audience inquisitive about everything from evacuations to air firefighting resources

U.S. Forest Service taking comments, holding meeting on methane project The White River National Forest has scheduled a public information meeting next week and is taking comments regarding a proposal to inventory and study the...

Airport closes on Wednesday for most of May The Aspen/Pitkin County Airport starts its two-week closure Wednesday for airfield pavement maintenance. From May 10-24, work will focus on the taxiway and de-ice pad. The work...

Rural electric cooperative Holy Cross Energy has announced eight candidates running for two seats on the Board of Directors in its upcoming election in June.

A blustery winter in the Roaring Fork watershed could mean a long, steady snowmelt for the rivers. But Mother Nature could still influence how the above-average snowpack flows into the waterways.  “The next two weeks...

Pitkin County is now asking residents and visitors who speak a language other than English to download the app, ReachWell, which delivers emergency and community messages in 100 languages using AI translation software.

Halle Zander's three part series on emergency alerts looks at Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield Counties and the work they're doing to make sure Spanish speakers in the valley have the information they need when an emergency strikes.

The Pitkin Alert system run by Pitkin County’s dispatch center is a software that is used to notify residents directly during an emergency. But until now, it has only translated certain high-priority alerts in Spanish using Google Translate. This is the first story in a three-part series on Spanish-language emergency alerts in the Roaring Fork Valley’s three counties — Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle — and comparing what different agencies are offering.