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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 ...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Marijuana bus tours view themselves as industry ambassadors

DENVER (AP) – “Welcome to the party bus.” That’s what tour guide Alyse Morgan told 20-plus tourists who were riding in a marijuana bus tour on a hot May Friday. It was a rare chan...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Missing boater’s body recovered in northern Colorado lake

The Associated Press STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – Authorities have recovered the body of a man who went missing in a northern Colorado lake. Steamboat Today reports 64-year-old ...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man shoots himself at Colorado music festival, apparently by accident

GRAND JUNCTION – An investigation is underway after a man shot himself in the stomach, apparently by accident, at a country music festival in western Colorado. The Grand Junction ...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Some Colorado ballots turned in for both parties, nullifying votes

DENVER – Hundreds of ballots for this year’s primary elections in Colorado won’t be counted because some unaffiliated voters have not followed the rules. The Denver Post reports t...

DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wool, mohair program stops at Navajo Nation for seventh year

FARMINGTON – A program designed to promote the purchase of wool and mohair from producers on the Navajo Nation has returned to the reservation as part of a project developed through a partne...

DATE: Jun 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cat tests positive for rabies after biting Colorado person

GREELEY – A cat has tested positive for rabies after biting a person in Colorado. The Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment says the person is undergoing treatme...

DATE: Jun 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: 2 Mexican wolves found dead in Arizona last month

Arizona wildlife managers say two endangered Mexican gray wolves died, bringing the statewide total of dead wolves this year to six. The Arizona Game and Fish Department said in a...

DATE: Jun 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawsuit challenges Boulder’s new assault-weapon ban

BOULDER – The Colorado affiliate of the National Rifle Association has filed a lawsuit against the city of Boulder in an effort to push back against the city’s new assault-weapon ban. ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Catholic bishops dismayed with border policies

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s Catholic bishops have joined other religious leaders in opposing policies that are resulting in immigrant children being separated from their parents after enterin...

DATE: Jun 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News