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Xcel files plan to close coal-fired power plant in Pueblo

DENVER – Xcel Energy has proposed a tentative agreement to close Colorado’s largest coal-fired power plant by 2035, well ahead of its original retirement date of 2070, as regulators consider...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hiker finds remains of fourth, final victim of Colorado flood

FORT COLLINS – A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire, authorit...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver imposes mask mandate in indoor public places

DENVER – Denver is joining other nearby counties in imposing a mask mandate in public places, a move which officials said Tuesday was needed to prevent the region’s hospital system from coll...

DATE: Nov 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

3 teens arrested in shooting at suburban Denver high school

AURORA – Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora have arrested three teenagers in connection with the shooting of three students in a high school parking lot on Friday, a Colorado newspaper re...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico foresees robust growth in state government income

SANTA FE – Forecasts for state government income have increased slightly as New Mexico legislators prepare to meet in January to craft a general fund budget. The state’s top taxation officia...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Risk of quakes caused by oil, gas in New Mexico rising

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Multiple earthquakes were felt earlier this fall in West Texas, leading regulators in that state to designate a seismic response area and call for less wastewater from oil...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Police: 3 students shot in Denver-area school parking lot

AURORA – Three students were shot Friday during a fight in the parking lot of a high school in the Denver suburb of Aurora, the police chief said, only days after six teenagers from a nearby...

DATE: Nov 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cops search four Colorado locations in election security probe

GRAND JUNCTION – A law enforcement task force searched four western Colorado locations amid an investigation into allegations that an elections clerk was involved in a security breach of ele...

DATE: Nov 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico agency investigating killing of bear near Taos

TAOS – New Mexico authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a bear with arrows along a road near Taos. Game and Fish Department spokesman James Pitman told the Albuquerque Journal ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Dolphin Tale’ fans mourn death of film’s star Winter at 16

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Amy Carmichael lives more than 4,000 miles from the Florida aquarium that housed Winter, the “Dolphin Tale” movie star with a prosthetic tail that died this week at 16. Bu...

DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Eunice moves ahead with desalination project

EUNICE, N.M. – One southeastern New Mexico city is taking another step forward as it looks for an “unlimited” source of water. Eunice City Council recently voted to have a Hobbs-based engin...

DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Hopis re-elect chairman, vote out incumbent vice chairman

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – The chairman of the Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona has won another term in office and will have a new vice chairman, according to unofficial results from Thursday's ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News