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New Mexico considers hourly $15 minimum for state workers

SANTA FE – Momentum appears to be building behind proposals to lift minimum pay in New Mexico state government to $15 an hour for at least 1,200 public workers who make less than that, amid ...

DATE: Nov 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

No charges for officer who killed man hailed as hero

DENVER – No criminal charges will be filed against a police officer who accidentally shot and killed a man hailed as a hero for stopping a gunman who ambushed another police officer in subur...

DATE: Nov 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge: Colorado parents can’t exempt kids from school masks

DENVER – A federal judge has issued a restraining order against a suburban Denver county’s policy allowing parents to opt their children out of a mask mandate at school, finding that the rul...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Injured Nuggets star Jamal Murray: 'I can't rush time'

Murray recovering from torn ACL

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Broncos expect Teddy Bridgewater to start despite sore foot

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater gingerly limped out to practice Tuesday and then stumbled onto the podium afterward, still feeling the effects of the battering he endured 48 hours ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But anot...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Elk roaming Colorado with tire around neck for 2 years freed

PINE — Wildlife officials in Colorado say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction. T...

DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Guided tour offers rare look at great house at Aztec Ruins

AZTEC (AP) – Retired archaeologist Jeff Wharton used maps to explain the size of Aztec North, an unexcavated great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument, during a guided tour of a part of t...

DATE: Oct 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Man dies after accidental fall on riverbank in Aspen

ASPEN – Authorities say a 38-year-old Aspen man who was found unconscious and lying partially in the Roaring Fork River in western Colorado has died. The Pitkin County Coroner’s Office says...

DATE: Oct 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports no COVID-19 deaths for 5th day

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Monday reported 29 more COVID-19 cases, but no additional deaths for the fifth consecutive day. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 34,1...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Denver Zoo apologizes a decade after visitor's death

DENVER – The Denver Zoo has apologized more than a decade after a Black man died after a confrontation with police on zoo grounds. Zoo president Bert Vescolani on Friday publicly apologized ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Update: Facebook’s global outage gradually dissipating

Service restored Monday evening; Facebook pages in Durango and Cortez affected

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News