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Haaland: U.S. expanding Native American massacre site

DENVER – Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an expansion Wednesday of a National Park Service historical site dedicated to the massacre by U.S. troops of more than 200 Native Americans...

DATE: Oct 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado, Nebraska jostle over water rights amid drought

OVID – Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day’s task: Carefully sowing hundred...

DATE: May 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado seeks election hard drive copies in security probe

DENVER – Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state filed a lawsuit on Thursday to compel a Republican elections clerk who says he copied his voting system’s hard drive to deliver those copies...

DATE: Feb 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado ends crisis care protocol for hospital staffing

DENVER – Citing declining COVID-19 hospitalizations as the omicron coronavirus variant wanes, Colorado on Thursday deactivated its crisis standards of care that enabled hospitals and emergen...

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado governor says all adults can get COVID-19 booster shot

DENVER – Facing a surge in coronavirus infections that threatens to overwhelm Colorado hospitals, Gov. Jared Polis defied federal guidance on COVID-19 booster shots Thursday by issuing an or...

DATE: Nov 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. formally removes Colorado River fish’s endangered status

Environmentalists oppose the change

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado school shooter to be sentenced to life in prison

DENVER – A former high school student convicted of first degree murder and other charges for a 2019 shooting attack inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one student and injured...

DATE: Sep 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New wild horse capture in Colorado to proceed, Interior says

DENVER – The federal government is launching an emergency roundup of more than 780 wild horses in a drought-stricken area of Colorado despite a last-minute appeal by Gov. Jared Polis to paus...

DATE: Sep 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s redistricting to hit high gear with census data

DENVER – Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions finally received the U.S. census data they need Thursday to rush to completion their year-end mission: Crafting new congressional di...

DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Drought, heat, fire force fishing ban on Colorado River

Limits in place from Kremmling to Rifle

DATE: Jul 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. proposes removing Colorado River fish’s endangered status

DENVER – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it plans to propose reclassifying a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the razorback sucker from endangered to threatened status a...

DATE: Jul 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arrest warrant stays sealed for Colorado man in wife&#39;s death

DENVER (AP) — An arrest warrant affidavit for a Colorado man charged with murder in the death of his wife who disappeared last year will remain sealed, a judge ruled Friday, saying that release of the document could harm the couple's daughters and witnesses in the case and hinder Barry Morphew's ability to prepare his own defense.

DATE: Jun 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News