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KZMU News welcomes Doug McMurdo to the studio for a discussion on The Times-Independent's latest coverage. This week - mosquitoes are showing signs of decline with recent fogging efforts, but local officials recently detected West Nile virus in the population. Also, Arches National Park becomes dark sky certified, local government receives criticism from a state rep for considering overnight lodging restrictions, and two long-term housing developments get approval from the county's planning commission. Tune in!

KZMU News welcomes Doug McMurdo to the studio for a discussion on The Times-Independent's latest coverage. This week - mosquitoes are showing signs of decline with recent fogging efforts, but local officials recently detected West Nile virus in the population. Also, Arches National Park becomes dark sky certified, local government receives criticism from a state rep for considering overnight lodging restrictions, and two long-term housing developments get approval from the county's planning commission. Tune in!

KZMU News welcomes Doug McMurdo to the studio for a discussion on The Times-Independent's latest coverage. This week - mosquitoes are showing signs of decline with recent fogging efforts, but local officials recently detected West Nile virus in the population. Also, Arches National Park becomes dark sky certified, local government receives criticism from a state rep for considering overnight lodging restrictions, and two long-term housing developments get approval from the county's planning commission. Tune in!

*Saturday Extra* The Moab Sun News often comes across interesting issues in the course of their regular reporting. Earlier this year, when managing editor Ashley Bunton attended the Nourishing Traditions gathering circle, she met Indigenous people living in Moab who had more than just one story to tell. So she wrote a series of articles about the unique issues facing some Native Americans in our community today. On KZMU’s extended newscast we discuss this series, spending time on one particular issue – housing, and what that looks like for one Native American woman working and supporting her family in Moab.

[Photo: Mutton on the grill at a Nourishing Traditions event earlier this year]

*Saturday Extra* The Moab Sun News often comes across interesting issues in the course of their regular reporting. Earlier this year, when managing editor Ashley Bunton attended the Nourishing Traditions gathering circle, she met Indigenous people living in Moab who had more than just one story to tell. So she wrote a series of articles about the unique issues facing some Native Americans in our community today. On KZMU’s extended newscast we discuss this series, spending time on one particular issue – housing, and what that looks like for one Native American woman working and supporting her family in Moab.

[Photo: Mutton on the grill at a Nourishing Traditions event earlier this year]

- Moab City considers stricter idling ordinance and new 'idle free' signage

- Colorado weighs re-introducing gray wolf population

- Robotic sage grouse help researchers understand species

- Moab City considers stricter idling ordinance and new 'idle free' signage

- Colorado weighs re-introducing gray wolf population

- Robotic sage grouse help researchers understand species

- Moab City considers stricter idling ordinance and new 'idle free' signage

- Colorado weighs re-introducing gray wolf population

- Robotic sage grouse help researchers understand species

Grand County and the Moab Mosquito Abatement District have scheduled an aerial spray of larvicide for 300 acres in the wetlands on Sunday July 14th. The county says the aerial operation – at a cost of roughly $72,000 – is an effort to prevent more mosquitoes from hatching. And later in the news, we get the latest on the Moab Area Travel Council’s “Do It Like A Local” initiative, which publicly launched during the July 4th celebrations in the park last week. “My philosophy is that we like that you love it here, but love it like you live here,” said MATC director Elaine Gizler of the new program. Learn more on today’s news.

[Photo: Community members check out the new "Do It Like A Local" initiative during a Swanny City Park event last week]

Grand County and the Moab Mosquito Abatement District have scheduled an aerial spray of larvicide for 300 acres in the wetlands on Sunday July 14th. The county says the aerial operation – at a cost of roughly $72,000 – is an effort to prevent more mosquitoes from hatching. And later in the news, we get the latest on the Moab Area Travel Council’s “Do It Like A Local” initiative, which publicly launched during the July 4th celebrations in the park last week. “My philosophy is that we like that you love it here, but love it like you live here,” said MATC director Elaine Gizler of the new program. Learn more on today’s news.

[Photo: Community members check out the new "Do It Like A Local" initiative during a Swanny City Park event last week]