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Colorado to adopt California’s stricter car pollution rules

DENVER – Colorado’s governor on Tuesday ordered his state to adopt California’s vehicle pollution rules, joining other states in resisting the Trump administration’s plans to ease up on emis...

N.M. congressional candidate blames Congress for family separations

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s Republican congressional candidate in a district along the border with Mexico is blaming Congress for an immigration crisis that has led to the separation of immigran...

Panel: Nuclear contamination found on worker at weapons lab

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Reports from an independent safety panel show radioactive contamination was found on a worker’s hands and other places at a nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico — the latest ...

Ex-inmate threatens to sue Colorado county over alleged excessive force

COLORADO SPRINGS – A former inmate is threatening to sue a Colorado county, alleging a deputy shoved his already broken jaw against a cell wall after he complained he was served food he coul...

Meat found in Fort Collins yards laced with rat poison

FORT COLLINS – A Colorado humane society group says food laced with rat poison has been found in several yards in a southeast Fort Collins neighborhood. The Coloradoan reports tha...

Advocates eye New Mexico fund for rural village libraries

EL RITO, N.M. – Dozens of nonprofit village libraries across New Mexico are in danger of closing without adequate funding and a steady stream of municipal support. The Santa Fe Ne...

2 teens charged for damaging New Mexico Vietnam War memorial

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Police have charged two teens for damaging a memorial to Vietnam War veterans and a Vietnam War-era Huey Helicopter at a New Mexico park. KVIA-TV in Las Cruce...

Another push for oil and gas measures on the Colorado ballot

Proposals falls on both sides of arguments for regulation

New Mexico Legislature resurrects bill pushed by utility

SANTA FE – Lawmakers are poised to resurrect legislation that would have helped New Mexico’s largest electric utility recoup some of its costs from closing a coal-fired power plant, which wo...

Looking for signs of global warming? It’s all around you

GOTHIC, Colo. – David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist. More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and bu...

Several staffers who left Post forming new online news site

DENVER – Several staffers who left The Denver Post amid budget and staff cuts made by the newspaper’s New York-based hedge fund owners are forming a new online news site called The Colorado ...

Colorado job growth quickens, surprising economists

Colorado has the fifth lowest unemployment rate in the nation. May saw just 2.8 percent of the workforce without a job. Economists say that’s basically full employment, and it sho...