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The Hanging Lake Trail in Glenwood Canyon will be closed tomorrow as volunteer crews work on final stages of a restoration project.

This week on Valley Roundup:

On this week’s Mountain Edition, hosts Barbara Platts and Elizabeth Stewart-Severy present a compilation of the week’s news.

An Aspen Pitkin Housing Authority unit may stay occupied by an allegedly non-compliant tenant for another year.

A challenge to the City of Aspen’s bag-fee ordinance was accepted by the Colorado Supreme Court this week. Detractors question the City Council’s authority to implement and collect funds without bringing the question to voters.

Author Luis Alberto Urrea has been called a “border writer” - penning novels and nonfiction works cataloging stories of immigration from Mexico to the United States.

Officials with Pitkin County Open Space and Trails are asking for public input on recent changes at North Star Nature Preserve.

The Colorado Department of Transportation announced yesterday that the four month rockfall mitigation project in Glenwood Canyon is officially complete.

Colorado is still the leanest state in the country, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Cyclists and runners along the Rio Grande Trail are seeing a different kind of wildlife this month. The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority has hired a herd of goats to eat weeds along the path from Glenwood Springs to Emma.