Outdoors

I brake for butterflies

If you have milkweed plants in your garden or yard, you may have seen monarch butterfly caterpillars munching away over the summer. Northern Colorado is not part of a major migration route, but you may […]

Outdoors

New state record fish caught in Windsor

After 27 years, the state record for black crappie has been broken! Fesstus Stalder of Greeley caught the fish, which weighed in at a record-breaking 3 pounds, 7.84 ounces, and 17.472 inches in length, at […]

Gardens & Landscapes

Celebrating sunflowers

by Sally Roth Hard to miss the cheerful sunflowers that bloom throughout NOCO, along roadsides, at the edges of farm fields, and in empty lots! These shorter, smaller-flowered sunflowers are our native species—prairie sunflower (Helianthus […]

Events

Here’s your chance to be Smokey Bear!

  The Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department (RCVFD) needs six volunteers to wear the Smokey Bear costume for 30 minutes each during their popular Mountain Festival on September 3. “You will be the star of the festival […]

News

Driverless truck to protect road crews makes its debut

No matter how many warning signs, cones, and flaggers are in place, road construction workers are in constant danger from vehicles that don’t get the message. Colorado Department of Transportation’s brand new, first-in-the-world unmanned construction […]