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Associated Press

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No evidence of bear attack at Colorado park

DENVER – Colorado wildlife officials say evidence does not support a woman’s claim that she was attacked by a black bear while hiking with her dog at a state park northwest of Denver. ...

DATE: Sep 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ex-Navajo Nation chapter employee pleads no contest to fraud

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation officials say a former K’ai’bii’to’ chapter accounts maintenance specialist has pleaded no contest to one count each of fraud and forgery. Triba...

DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wyoming tomato farmer pleads guilty to growing marijuana

CASPER, Wyo. – An organic tomato farmer in Wyoming pleaded guilty to federal charges of growing marijuana and money laundering. Stewart Doty of Big Piney faces about two years in ...

DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado agency to reopen gun range where fire was started

BASALT â€“ Colorado Parks and Wildlife will reopen the gun range near the community of Basalt where a destructive wildfire was ignited this summer. The agency announced in a news ...

DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fire near Steamboat Springs flares up in hot, dry conditions

DENVER – The fire danger is high again in Western Colorado, where hot and dry conditions have led to a wildfire burning near Steamboat Springs since mid-July to flare up. Routt Na...

DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New hunting options create buzz at New Mexico refuge

SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.M. – The phones are ringing at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico now that the U.S. government has expanded hunting at the refuge ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Marijuana use suspected in fatal I-70 crash in Colorado

IDAHO SPRINGS â€“ The Colorado State Patrol says a woman killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Interstate 70 is suspected of being under the influence of marijuana at the time. K...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo activists protest company eyeing coal-fired plant

New York-based company says a decision has not been reached

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico AG critical of rolling back methane rules

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is criticizing the Trump administration’s move to roll back rules intended to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations. ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawsuit over Thompson Divide drilling dismissed after deal

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – A lawsuit challenging the cancellation of oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in western Colorado is over. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn di...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cannabis sector funds Democratic bid for governor

SANTA FE – Democratic New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham is collecting campaign cash from cannabis companies in the countdown to the November general election. ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado judge drops murder charge in intruder’s shooting

COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado judge has dismissed a second-degree murder charge in the case of a Colorado Springs man charged with shooting an intruder he found in the basement of his apartm...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News