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Saving the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: Beavers show the way

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Bringing the Valley its daily bread

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Creative Citizen: 5 Questions with Jean Alger, Ink and Vein

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We Are Grateful | 2022

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A conversation with Ted Conover, author of ‘Cheap Land Colorado’

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Holiday events around the Valley

potato field

Potato industry is vital to the San Luis Valley and beyond

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SLRG Railroad auction nets $10.7 million bid

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A chat with Alamosa Fire Chief Bill Stone

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Soloviev Group enters bidding for SLRG Railroad

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Jones Oil: Moe Jones

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Man made beaver damn

Saving the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: Beavers show the way

couple in front of black and white bread loafs

Bringing the Valley its daily bread

person reading in a coffee shop

Creative Citizen: 5 Questions with Jean Alger, Ink and Vein

collage of images with We Are Grateful text

We Are Grateful | 2022

book on a dirt road with out-of-focus landscape in the background

A conversation with Ted Conover, author of ‘Cheap Land Colorado’

Best bets holiday slider

Holiday events around the Valley

potato field

Potato industry is vital to the San Luis Valley and beyond

rail road tracks

SLRG Railroad auction nets $10.7 million bid

man in baseball cap sitting on front bumper of fire engine

A chat with Alamosa Fire Chief Bill Stone

rail yard with curved tracks leading to train station

Soloviev Group enters bidding for SLRG Railroad

a horse and fence posts silhouetted against a vivid pink and orange sunrise

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Jones Oil: Moe Jones

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xcel energy maps

November 27, 2022

Xcel Energy plans transmission line replacement in 2023

Proposed line will improve reliability and mitigate wildfire risks

basketball

November 25, 2022

Valley basketball preview

Boys and girls teams look to repeat successes

christmas tree on a car

November 25, 2022

Christmas tree permits available now

Get a permit online or in person before cutting your own

Wolves

November 22, 2022

State to release Colorado wolf restoration draft plan

Colorado Parks and Wildlife to take feedback at five public meetings

Episode 76: Cleave Simpson

State Senator Cleave Simpson joins the Citizen to talk water and where water is going to push Colorado

Episode 76: Cleave Simpson

State Senator Cleave Simpson joins the Citizen to talk water and where water is going to push Colorado

MORE STORIES

shot of most of downtown Villa Grove: a commercial building for sale, the general store, and a small motel

August 7, 2022

Seven Peaks Music fest to draw 13,000-plus to Villa Grove

Kale Mortensen at the site of the demolished Motorway building

January 12, 2022

Motorway demolition complete; next steps underway

athletic director standing on football field

September 7, 2022

Adams State goes for new Game Day vibe

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September 9, 2021

Duane Bussey calls it a day at SLV Federal Bank

a train moves a long line of freight cars over La Veta Pass

July 14, 2022

San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad must handle freight, first and foremost

Alamosa River

December 7, 2021

Riparian restoration shows promise

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August 21, 2021

Upper Rio Grande basin: The threats ahead

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February 23, 2022

Conservation groups: Environmental cost of RWR plan is too high

climber facing a frozen rocky mountainside

May 8, 2022

In the Alpine: The Sangre de Cristos

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September 1, 2021

Driest August ever

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October 5, 2021

Dennis Lopez named 2021 Billy Adams Award recipient

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March 17, 2022

Spring Has Sprung! Run a marathon!

The first woman to coach a boys basketball team

August 27, 2021

La Jara’s Maw Wilson

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August 26, 2021

A dash of panache in Del Norte

artist Matt Scavezze in his office, surrounded by his drawings and doodles

January 6, 2022

The Unexpected Artist: Matt Scavezze

Pueblo Isleta Governor Vernon Abeyta addresses Rio Grande Compact commissioners

May 7, 2022

New Mexico Pueblos call for ‘seat at the table’ during Rio Grande Compact meeting

The group, as identified below

July 7, 2022

Knots, anchors, slippery rock: Training with AVSAR

mountain biking team with parents

October 18, 2022

Rattlers conclude regular season with third-place team finish

motocross rider on a dirt track

July 21, 2022

50 years of motocross at Sutak Raceway

Chris Canaly portrait

May 1, 2022

Chris Canaly

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

November 23, 2021

Visitors can’t get enough Dunes

Substitute teacher Mr. Wilbert Martinez' I.D. badge

December 15, 2021

Substitute teacher shortage hits hard

Kris Steinberg

March 29, 2022

All the cool seniors – 55 and up – are volunteering

Memorial Day salute to those killed in action

May 31, 2022

Honoring fallen war heroes

photo of woman at homecoming parade superimposed on photo of university at twilight

October 23, 2022

Q&A with Michele Lueck, chair of Adams State Board of Trustees

Dennis Lopez

February 26, 2022

San Luis Valley loses treasured storyteller Dennis Lopez

GOAL High School Students

December 17, 2021

The GOAL: creative learning

exterior of mushroom farm building

September 29, 2022

Colorado Mushroom Farm goes out of business

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September 14, 2021

REDISTRICTING: Initial map has Valley counties in State Senate District 7