Heather McGregor from Glenwood Springs Citizens Alliance gave an update Wednesday on the Mid-Continent Limestone Quarry expansion south of Glenwood. KDNK's Lucas Turner has more.

About 60 people packed the Glenwood Springs Library Community Room Wednesday to hear about the “State of Glenwood.” KDNK’s Lucas Turner was there and has the details.

The Garfield County Library District is asking voters to decide on Proposition 6A next week. The initiative would raise property taxes within the District to provide permanent baseline funding for six libraries from Carbondale to Parachute. In the final story of our series, here’s more about the needs of the Silt and New Castle libraries.

Ten Thousand Villages hosts a fair trade craft fair next week at the Good Sheperd Lutheran Church in Glenwood. KDNK’s Lucas Turner spoke with event coordinator Rachel Carcaterra to learn about the meaning of fair trade, and what products you might find at the four-day event.

The Garfield County Library District is asking voters to decide on Proposition 6A in November. The initiative would raise property taxes within the District to provide permanent baseline funding for six libraries from Carbondale to Parachute. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has more about the needs of the Carbondale and Glenwood Springs branches.

Rocky Mountain Resources wants to keep core samples from hydrology tests at the Mid-Continent Limestone Quarry. For this week’s News Brief, KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh and Post Independent reporter Thomas Phippen discuss the Pandora’s Box of issues that this presents.

Arches National Park is officially scrapping their first attempt to find solutions for traffic congestion in the park. They’re now starting a new process, one that takes a harder look at mandatory shuttle service, additional entrance roads, and traffic patterns within the park. KZMU’s Molly Marcello has more.

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), stuttering is a speech disorder that affects roughly 3 million Americans. It happens most often in children aged 2 to 6 as they develop language skills. KDNK's Lucas Turner spoke with the President of The Stuttering Foundation Jane Fraser to learn more about this condition.

Local clean energy groups CLEER and CORE host the Beyond the Strike Climate Forum Wednesday at 5 PM at the Third Street Center in Carbondale. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with Stefan Johnson of CLEER to find out more.

People are effectively training bears to get into trouble, and Colorado wildlife officials are sick of it. That’s the title of a story published in the Colorado Sun Thursday. For this week’s News Brief, KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with co-author Erin McIntyre about new efforts to solve the problem.