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Denver homeless program struggles to reduce death rates

DENVER (AP) – When people who had been homeless for years moved off the Denver streets and into apartments, they were far less likely to end up in hospital emergency rooms or get locked up i...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado mushroom forays, improved by monsoons, are becoming more popular

Colorado Mycological Society has experienced a boost in membership in recent years

DATE: Aug 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More than 400 wild horses captured in first week of helicopter roundup

BLM effort has drawn criticism from politicians, advocacy groups; feds say mustangs at risk of starvation

DATE: Jul 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Helicopter roundup in western Colorado aims to capture 750 wild horses in next month

Mustang advocates say herding in 100-degree heat is inhumane; BLM says grazing conditions are getting worse

DATE: Jul 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado wolf attacks continue; rancher fights for compensation, and hazing fails

Walden rancher says he’s lost three calves. He’s tried wild burros, fox lights, flags and cracker shells

DATE: Jun 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s controversial public guardianship program scrutinized in legislative budget battle

Lawmakers are concerned about deaths of 14 wards in two years and a lack of oversight

DATE: Apr 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fed-up conservative moms are winning in Colorado, and they don’t plan to stop

After two years of pandemic frustrations, new conservative groups are sprouting across Colorado as women lead the GOP ballot

DATE: Mar 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers want to spell it out: It’s legal for kids to play outside alone

A bipartisan measure would clarify that it isn’t child abuse for children to play outside or stay home without parents

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado ranchers who have lost livestock to wolves want to know if anyone hears them

Cattlemen say lethal force needed to get rid of the problem

DATE: Jan 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Advocates to push for overhaul of Colorado’s youth residential centers

Facilities are closing, staff is quitting and children are getting worse – not better

DATE: Dec 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former youth corrections campus eyed for homeless center east of Denver

WATKINS (AP) – On the treeless flatlands east of Denver, in a field of yellow-brown weeds that feels like the middle of nowhere, sits an empty campus with seven dormitories, 500 beds, a cafe...

DATE: Nov 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Northwest Colorado wild horse roundup ends with 70% of the herd removed

About 100 fewer horses than expected were rounded up via helicopter after national outcry, plea from governor

DATE: Sep 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News