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Crews fight 2 lightning-sparked wildfires in NW Colorado

MEEKER – Crews are fighting two wildfires started by lightning in Northwestern Colorado. The 750-acre Sulphur Fire started Sunday afternoon 5 miles north of Meeker. Bureau of Land...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

British Open at a glance

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – A brief look at Thursday’s first round of the British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links: LEADING: Kevin Kisner had a 5-under 66. TRAILING: To...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Wreckage from missing plane found, pilot’s body identified

BOULDER – Officials say hikers in central Colorado spotted the wreckage of a plane that went missing after it left Erie for a destination in Utah. Park County Undersheriff Dave Wo...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation begins negotiations with possible new coal plant owner

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Leaders from the Navajo Nation say they’ve begun negotiations with a potential new owner of a coal-fired power plant on their land. The Navajo Generating Stat...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Complaint seeks $34K from former Navajo Nation legal counsel

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Investigators with the Navajo Nation are seeking more than $34,000 from the tribe’s former legal counsel after she crashed a tribal vehicle and was arrested on suspicion...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Activists ask judge to keep public off former weapons plant

DENVER – Environmentalists and community activists are trying to persuade a judge that the public might not be safe on a Colorado wildlife refuge that used to be a buffer zone around a nucle...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wyoming officer charged after gun discharges at Colo. youth game

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – A Wyoming police officer whose gun accidentally discharged at a youth baseball tournament in Colorado last month has been charged with two misdemeanors. KCNC-T...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado corrections investigating homicide of offender

BUENA VISTA – Corrections officials are investigating the murder of an inmate at the Buena Vista Correctional Facility in central Colorado. The Department of Corrections says that...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Paper prices trigger changes to The Daily Sentinel

GRAND JUNCTION – The Daily Sentinel says it will convert its Monday and Tuesday print editions to electronic delivery starting Aug. 13. Publisher Jay Seaton announced Sunday the c...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Mesa County’s largest day care facility closing

GRAND JUNCTION – The largest child care facility in western Colorado’s Mesa County is closing this week after it was sold to an organization that plans to make it a preschool. The...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Clint Eastwood film set to begin production in New Mexico

‘The Mule’ traces story of elderly drug courier

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

New Mexico passenger bus crash kills 3, injures 24 others

Accident occurred just north of Bernalillo

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News