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Albuquerque has employed hundreds of homeless since 2015

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque officials say a program aimed at providing work to people who are homeless has resulted in 6,666 one-day-long jobs since September 2015 for people living on the str...

French helicopter company testing prototype in Farmington

FARMINGTON – A France-based helicopter company has come to test a prototype helicopter at the Four Corners Regional Airport in Farmington where mid-altitude conditions and warm weather can b...

Jack Daniel’s prices increase in Europe because of tariffs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The price of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey will increase in the European Union because of the impact of the bloc’s new 25 percent tariff. The EU is taxing a ra...

Doubts emerge about Colorado bear attack story

FORT COLLINS – Colorado officials say they doubt a reported bear attack on a campsite really happened. Ty Petersburg with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says in a report obtained by ...

Growing wildfire keeps Colorado highway, campgrounds closed

COLORADO SPRINGS – A growing wildfire has closed a highway and campgrounds in southern Colorado. There’s no estimate when U.S. Highway 160 might reopen in the Fort Garland area so...

New Mexico district tapped for ‘rolling study halls’ program

SANTA FE – Google is partnering with the Santa Fe public school district to give students with long commutes the ability to ride buses outfitted with Wi-Fi and an onboard tutor. D...

Five Colorado wildfires trigger hundreds of evacuations

DENVER – Five wildfires have prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes Friday amid dry, windy weather in Colorado. At least 650 homes were affected, but the exact number wasn’t...

Oregon officials criticized for pesticides killing pines

BEND, Ore. – Environmental advocates are calling out the Oregon Department of Transportation and its contractors for applying a weedkiller along a highway in Sisters that unintentionally kil...

Taking a look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press c...

10 months of Nevada pot sales exceed year-end projection

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Tax collections on recreational marijuana sales in Nevada have exceeded projections for the entire fiscal year in just the first 10 months since they became legal last Ju...

Colorado man held in death of girlfriend

DELTA – A 24-year-old Colorado man is being held in the death of his girlfriend whose body was found in neighboring Utah. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports Delta County ...

Utah national parks seeing increase in search and rescues

SALT LAKE CITY – Rescues at Utah’s national parks are up 68 percent from 2014 – and men in their 20s are the ones most likely to need help, according to recent data. Most of the s...