KDNK's Weekly News Reel takes a look at the week's top local and regional news stories aired on KDNK between Monday, February 17 and Friday, February 21.

Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) has invited four different valley artists to make 8-foot by 8-foot billboards for public display starting next week , and the pieces will have some things in common. They’ll all be black-and-white, bilingual, and contain the same slogan: “THIS ART IS MADE FROM CARBON EMISSIONS / ESTA PIEZA ESTA HECHA CON EMISIONES DE CARBONO.”

Things aren’t going so well for the Jordan Cove LNG and pipeline project in Oregon. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has this update.

State lawmakers resume a debate this week on a bill to end the death penalty. As KDNK’s Scott Franz reports, talks in the House will likely be more heated than they were in the Senate..

Debbie Wilde is the executive director of Valley Life for All, and a community organizer who has been leading efforts to tackle homelessness, and establish a detox center in Glenwood Springs. She came into KDNK to speak with Jarid Rollins, director of the Community Opioid Treatment Strategy Coalition.

After 13 hours of testimony, state lawmakers have rejected six bills from Republicans that were heavily criticized by members of the LGBTQ community. KDNK's Scott Franz has more.

Fire officials in Aspen believe an explosion and subsequent fire Sunday morning was caused by a natural gas meter damaged by falling ice and snow. KDNK's Lucas Turner has more.

Back-country recreation near Vail and Aspen took a toll over the weekend. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has this report.

KDNK's Weekly News Reel takes a look at the week's top local and regional news stories aired on KDNK between Monday, February 10 and Friday, February 14.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering changes to agency land-use planning, which could eliminate National Environmental Policy Act requirements from long-term planning regulations. There has been no formal announcement of a new rulemaking, but KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with Wilderness Workshop attorney Peter Hart about what these kinds of changes would mean for public lands protection.