Fort Collins news, campus-first and clear.
KCSU News turns the Rocky Mountain Review broadcast into a steady regional briefing for Colorado State University and northern Colorado. Its episodes move from campus updates and Fort Collins public affairs to event listings, national news, CSU sports, and weather.
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KCSU News is a regional news feed centered on the Rocky Mountain Review, the student-produced broadcast from 90.5 FM KCSU Fort Collins. Its core promise is straightforward. Each episode gathers campus news, local developments, community events, national headlines, CSU sports, and weather into a single structured hour. The show is especially grounded in Colorado State University and the northern Colorado area. Recent coverage includes CSU email sending limits, scholarship support, ASCSU activity at the Colorado State Capitol, commencement speakers, and research partnerships with CU Boulder. Local reports widen the focus to Fort Collins, Larimer County, Weld County, Greeley, and the Poudre School District. The strongest segments often explain civic pressure points in plain terms, such as declining school enrollment, fire restrictions, housing and birth-rate effects, wildfire evacuations, public safety incidents, and transportation disruptions. The pacing is measured. Rather than conversational debate, the feed favors headline-first summaries, named source attribution, and clean transitions between beats. That makes it easy to drop into an episode and understand what changed, where it happened, and why it matters locally. The life-and-events block gives the show a softer civic texture. Concerts, film festivals, campus performances, color runs, and Fort Collins venue listings sit beside harder news without becoming lifestyle chatter. National news appears regularly, but it often carries a Colorado connection, whether through Artemis II, snowpack concerns, disaster funding, court rulings, or federal officials visiting the state. Sports and weather round out the broadcast with predictable utility. The show can feel procedural, and some episodes include repeated sponsor reads or transcript-like repetition. Its value is not surprise. Its value is dependable local orientation from a campus newsroom that treats CSU students and northern Colorado residents as part of the same civic audience.
Made for: KCSU News suits CSU students, Fort Collins residents, northern Colorado listeners, and anyone tracking regional public affairs without punditry. It is especially useful for people who want campus updates and local civic context in one predictable feed.
What sets it apart: The show combines a college newsroom's campus access with a formal local-news structure, making CSU stories sit naturally beside Fort Collins public affairs, public safety, arts, sports, and weather. Its regional lens is narrow enough to be practical but broad enough to capture the civic life around the university.
Bringing you news coverage of northern Colorado and national news, straight from the KCSU Fort Collins News Desk.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
KCSU News connects CSU life to Northern Colorado civic decisions through a practical, clearly segmented broadcast.
KCSU News moves from Colorado State University and Fort Collins through Northern Colorado, then out to national developments, with Tyler Weatherwax and the assistant news director guiding a clearly segmented broadcast.
CSU elections, fallen spruces, and fire restrictions become the briefing your group chat forgot to file.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured local news hour that turns enrollment, campus updates, and Interstate 25 closures into plain facts.
Poudre School District's enrollment decline gives this KCSU News episode its strongest throughline, and the reporting gives the numbers and context enough room to land.
An orderly campus-and-community rundown that stays easy to follow.
Rocky Mountain Review keeps this segment moving with a clean, practical sweep through campus and community news. It starts with Colorado State University updates, then shifts into the Laramie County wildfire evacuation, Fort Collins events, national headlines, CSU sports, and…
A disciplined campus newscast that moves from CSU coverage to local and national headlines.
Rocky Mountain Review treats this episode like a clean campus-to-community roundup, moving from ASCSU's trip to the Capitol into local, national, sports, and weather coverage with no wasted motion.
A steady campus-and-city news hour with clear reporting and useful local context.
Rocky Mountain Review keeps to a clear campus-and-city news roundup, moving from the Colorado Court of Appeals story tied to CSU and the Democracy Summit to Fort Collins fire restrictions, weekend events, western snowpack concerns, CSU sports, and weather.
A plainspoken campus-to-city roundup, with the storm coverage carrying the most weight.
Rocky Mountain Review keeps moving at a steady clip, shifting from ASCSU election results to storm damage in Fort Collins and then out to national news. That breadth works because the structure stays easy to follow: campus, city, nation.
A bulletin-style local newscast that balances CSU, Weld County, events, and a timely Valentine's Day feature.
Rocky Mountain Review moves from campus news to local news, then to events and a feature, giving the episode a clear bulletin-style shape. The campus segment centers on CSU professors working to avoid AI usage in the classroom, while the local story turns to Weld County's plans…
A steady KCSU roundup spanning CSU innovation, Larimer County child care tax coverage, and national Trump/Epstein news.
This KCSU News hour ties together a campus innovation story, a Larimer County child care tax item, and a Trump/Epstein-files update. The CSU adaptive-shoe segment gives the broadcast its clearest center, since it stays on practical shoe technology for people with disabilities.
KCSU News covers Abigail Whitaker's Critical Language Scholarship to spend eight weeks in Tanzania on a Swahili immersion program, including the detail that 315 students were selected from 4,500 applicants in 2026.
This news episode covers campus, local, and national stories including an Epstein survivor speaking at CSU's Human Trafficking Symposium, a free market opening in Northern Colorado, and Colorado being denied federal disaster funds.
The April 9th Rocky Mountain Review on KCSU 90.5 FM covers a two-week US-Iran ceasefire mediated by Pakistan that reopened the Strait of Hormuz, alongside Colorado-specific stories about a 98-year-old summoned for jury duty and the arrest of a former Fort Collins middle school employee on child exploitation charges.
A campus newscast opens with the full lineup.
This episode covers Colorado State University's new email sending limits to combat phishing, an arrest in Fort Collins pellet gun attacks, and the Artemis II launch with Colorado connections.
This episode of the Rocky Mountain Review covers campus news about a CSU commencement speech by an Olympic athlete, local protests in Fort Collins, and a Supreme Court ruling on Colorado's conversion therapy law.
This episode covers local news from March 20-27, 2026, including Colorado Court of Appeals hearings at CSU, windstorm damage to trees in Fort Collins, and the city implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions.
The Rocky Mountain Review on KCSU Fort Collins covers campus, local, and national news for Thursday, March 26th, produced by CSU student journalists.
KCSU News centers on ASCSU election results, a Fort Collins windstorm that damaged more than 200 trees, and national coverage of ICE agents being assigned airport security roles.
A news update covering strong winds, fires, campus closure, and road closures in Fort Collins, Colorado.
A news broadcast covering northern Colorado and national news, including campus updates, local events, elections, and weather.
A weekly news recap covering local and national stories from northern Colorado, including a former CSU football player's verdict, increased police presence, and a possible early release for Tina Peters.
A news broadcast covering campus, local, national, and sports news in northern Colorado.
A news broadcast covering campus, local, national, and sports news for northern Colorado.
A news broadcast covering campus news, local news, national news, sports, and weather for northern Colorado.
A news broadcast covering campus news about ASCSU elections, local news about a road rage incident, and national news about a coal power plant.
A news broadcast covering campus, local, and national stories including CSU billboard pause, Ikea store announcement, a blood drive feature, and an I-25 crash.
A news broadcast covering local and national stories including a new CSU veterinary hospital, a developer named in Epstein Files, and prison labor violations.
Thursday, February 12th, brings a measured Rocky Mountain Review broadcast.
A news broadcast covering campus updates, local crime, events, national news, sports, and weather for northern Colorado.
A news broadcast covering CSU faculty objections to a chancellor search, local protests over ICE activities, and other regional news.
A news broadcast covering campus and local news in northern Colorado, including a student engagement survey and ice protests.
A news broadcast covering CSU's sustainability platinum rating, a new addiction treatment facility in Fort Collins, and Colorado population growth decline.
A news broadcast covering campus, local, and national news stories for northern Colorado.
A news broadcast covering campus news about wildfire vulnerability research, local news of a fatal accident, and other segments including sports and weather.
A news broadcast covering campus news about CSU's mental health honor roll, local updates on a missing woman, and other segments.
This episode covers CSU President Amy Parsons addressing free speech policy concerns, an endangered missing alert for a Northern Colorado woman, and Colorado receiving $420.6 million for rural internet development.
This episode covers Colorado State University's new $6 million behavioral health center aimed at expanding workforce training and services in Colorado.
Thursday, November 20th, opens the broadcast.
A news broadcast covering local and national news, including a vandalized Black Lives Matter mural at CSU, a police shooting, and political updates.
A news broadcast covering campus protests for higher education, local dam construction delays, and national news.
Colorado State University's Career Services Center has been recognized as one of the nation's best through Handshake's Career Spark Awards for exceptional student and employer engagement.
A news broadcast covering SNAP benefit cuts at CSU, Fort Collins voters' decision on the old Rams football site, and other local, national, and campus news.
This episode covers an award-winning photojournalist's visit to CSU, a local butcher shop providing food amid SNAP benefit cuts, and updates on national and campus news.
A news broadcast covering campus, local, national, and sports news in northern Colorado.