A ‘remarkable’ flu season: It nearly disappeared
Several factors may have caused dramatic drop in rates of infection
DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
Healthy Equity course to focus on LGBTQ+ issues
A six-week online Health Equity course focused on LGBTQ+ issues will take place from March 31 to May 19.
This learning experience approaches the issue of LGBTQ+ health from multip...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
GOCO awards $86,200 grant to La Plata Open Space Conservancy
Great Outdoors Colorado awarded an $86,200 grant to La Plata Open Space Conservancy to launch a conservation, stewardship and community engagement initiative.
This project will i...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Colorado State Forest Service offers tree pruning tips
Colorado State Forest Service says late winter or early spring is the best time to prune most trees.
Trees are still dormant at this time of year and, unlike in early winter, wou...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Hawaii gets tourism surge as coronavirus rules loosen up
HONOLULU (AP) – Tourists are traveling to Hawaii in larger numbers than officials anticipated, and many are wandering around Waikiki without masks, despite a statewide mandate to wear them i...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel
Researchers study impact of pandemic cancer screening pause
John Abraham’s colonoscopy was postponed for several months because of the pandemic. When he finally got it, doctors found a growth too big to be removed safely during the scope exam. He had...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
Tourism groups push U.S. to eliminate travel restrictions
Airlines and other tourism-related businesses are pushing the White House to draw up a plan in the next five weeks to boost international travel and eliminate restrictions that were imposed ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel
Miami’s South Beach confronts disastrous spring break
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Florida’s famed South Beach is desperately seeking a new image.
With more than 1,000 arrests and nearly 100 gun seizures already during this year’s spring brea...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel
CSU Extension to offer produce safety training
Colorado State University Extension, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association and the Colorado Department of Agriculture will host an online-only Produc...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
U.S. seeks more time to rewrite Mexican gray wolf management rules
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. wildlife officials are asking a federal judge for more time to rewrite rules that guide management of North America’s rarest subspecies of gray wolf, saying they will miss...
DATE: Mar 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Endangered wolf population keeps growing
Nearly 200 Mexican gray wolves roam New Mexico, Arizona
DATE: Mar 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
