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Proposal to curb oil, gas drilling gets on ballot

DENVER – A contentious proposal to tightly restrict the location of new oil and gas wells in Colorado attracted more than enough petition signatures to qualify for the November ballot, elect...

DATE: Aug 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Odds of shortage increase for vital river in Southwest

DENVER – The drought-stressed Colorado River carried even less water than expected this summer, increasing the odds of a shortage in the vital river system in 2020, federal water managers sa...

DATE: Aug 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Colorado governor candidates outline differences on energy

DENVER – Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton warned Wednesday that Democrats want to impose job-killing restrictions on oil and gas development in Colorado, while Democrat Ja...

DATE: Aug 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Experts: Hail damage is worse, but climate role uncertain

BOULDER – Hailstorms inflict billions of dollars in damage yearly in North America alone, and the cost will rise as the growing population builds more homes, offices and factories, climate a...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Governors say ban on land deals could hurt beleaguered greater sage grouse

DENVER – Some governors in the U.S. West say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a beleaguered bird scattered across their regio...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge won’t bar public from refuge that was once a nuke site

DENVER – A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to bar the public from a Colorado wildlife refuge that was once part of a nuclear weapons plant. Environmentalists and comm...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Psychiatrist: Much is still hidden in theater shooter’s mind

James Holmes shot and killed 12 movie-goers in Aurora in 2012

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

3 years after Gold King Mine spill, victims awaiting payment

DENVER – Three years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency triggered a massive mine spill that polluted rivers in three states, the federal government still has not repaid any of th...

DATE: Aug 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado to accelerate cleanup of ‘orphaned’ oil, gas wells

DENVER – Colorado’s governor ordered state regulators on Wednesday to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells whose owners have walked away. Gov. John Hickenlooper al...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge asked to keep public away from ex-nuclear weapons plant

DENVER – A retired professor testified Tuesday he found evidence that billions of particles of plutonium had escaped from a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and settled on land that ...

DATE: Jul 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. delays decision on drilling near Great Sand Dunes park

DENVER – The U.S. government on Tuesday delayed a decision on a contentious proposal to allow oil and gas drilling near Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado, saying it first w...

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado to adopt California’s stricter car pollution rules

DENVER – Colorado’s governor on Tuesday ordered his state to adopt vehicle pollution rules enforced in California, joining other states in resisting the Trump administration’s plans to ease ...

DATE: Jun 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life