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On average, rural areas in the West actually have more hospital beds per person than urban areas.

Crowded cities and lonely country: See your county’s hospital bed capacity Custer County, Colorado,...

Editor's Note from High Country News: The data here does not include all medical facilities and is a baseline look at hospital capacity based...
WESTERVILLE, OHIO - OCTOBER 15: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) looks on as South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Heading into Iowa: Where do the Democratic candidates stand on health care coverage? Six...

As Democratic presidential hopefuls gather in Iowa for the seventh debate, Iran and foreign policy will likely play a central role. But health care will...

Denver school board race: See how much money outside groups, candidates have spent

Welcome back to Chalkbeat’s campaign finance tracker. We’ll track how much each of the nine Denver school board candidates has raised and spent in the runup...

Research: What Colorado needs to do to preserve the modern public record

When state Sen. John Cooke asked for email communications of the top official for the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission last fall, the agency’s...
Machinery sits idle in May at the Van 4 mine, the subject of a July court decision ruling that it must be shut down and cleaned up. (Photo by Mark Olalde/Center for Public Integrity)

While ‘zombie’ mines idle, cleanup and workers suffer in limbo Instead of paying to...

This investigation was produced in collaboration with High Country News, The Center for Public Integrity and the Ohio Valley ReSource. The sound of metal banging against metal broke the...

How Bureau of Land Management employees really feel about moving West Leaked audio from...

When it comes to the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters, acting Director William Perry Pendley, a self-proclaimed “sagebrush rebel,” is just...

Opinion: Youth climate movement puts ethics at the center of the global debate

This story was originally published by Marion Hourdequin,  a Colorado College professor specializing in environmental philosophy, on The Conversation on September 18, 2019. Even if...

Parked: Routt County manufactured homes by the numbers In just the last 10 years,...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Routt County’s manufactured home supply has been almost reduced by half in just the last decade. Routt County Assessor Gary Peterson noted...

Parked: Ouray woman watches a mobile-home investment evaporate with her mother’s death The single-wide...

For many Coloradans, the purchase of a single- or double-wide trailer represents their variation on the American dream of home ownership and a slice...

Parked: Delta mobile-home resident poisoned by carbon monoxide; rental company denies anything is wrong...

Editor’s note: The subject of the story has asked her real name be withheld out of fear for her safety due to a previous...
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