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Planned burn turned wildfire causes evacuations in Colorado

FORT COLLINS – Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire that began as a controlled burn and is now threatening about 50 homes in northern Colorado. Residents were ordered to...

DATE: Oct 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Conservationists seek protection of California Joshua trees

LOS ANGELES – The western Joshua tree needs protection under the California Endangered Species Act because of threats from climate change and habitat destruction, the Center for Biological D...

DATE: Oct 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

KANSAS CITY (4-2) at DENVER (2-4)

TV: 6:20 p.m. Thursday, Fox, NFL Network and Amazon Prime Video OPENING LINE: Chiefs by 4½ RECORD VS. SPREAD: Chiefs 4-2, Broncos 2-4 SERIES REC...

DATE: Oct 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

3-time Olympic cyclist Taylor Phinney announces retirement

COLORADO SPRINGS – Three-time Olympic cyclist Taylor Phinney is retiring from professional racing, ending a career that included 10 world championship medals and a stage win at the Giro d’It...

DATE: Oct 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Albuquerque police contest seeks to build ‘lowrider’ patrol

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest police force wants to go slow and low. The Albuquerque Police Department is inviting high school students to design the department’s first lowri...

DATE: Oct 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Forest Service, Colorado county to hire enforcement officers

ASPEN – A Colorado county has announced plans to collaborate with a federal forest agency to create and fill two wildlife enforcer positions. Aspen Daily News reports that Pitkin ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tiger Woods to write a memoir on ups and downs of his career

NEW YORK – Tiger Woods is writing what he describes as his definitive story in a memoir titled “Back.” HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday it has acquired rights to the fir...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

New Colorado high temperature confirmed by weather officials

DENVER – Weather officials have verified a new high temperature for Colorado that surpasses the previous record by a single degree. KCNC-TV reports the Colorado Climate Center c...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Teachers’ strike continues in central Colorado

FAIRPLAY – Classes are canceled for a second day in a central Colorado district because of a strike by teachers. Teachers in the Park County School District RE-2 were picketing ag...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo voters elect new delegate to tribal council

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Council has a new delegate. Carl Roessel Slater won a special election for a seat representing five Navajo communities in the Arizona portio...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico man who killed family to be sentenced

ALBUQUERQUE – A New Mexico man who shot and killed his parents and three young siblings when he was a teenager is scheduled to be sentenced. Nehemiah Griego will appear Tuesday in...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police seek man who started fire at northern Colorado church

BOULDER – Police are looking for a man who started a fire that caused more than $5,000 in damage at a church in northern Colorado. The Boulder Daily Camera reports the man brok...

DATE: Oct 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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