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Study: National parks get fewer visits when pollution rises

DENVER – Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what’s found in major cities, according t...

Housing authority board forces former member to sell home

ASPEN – A former housing authority board member who illegally rented her taxpayer-subsidized home on Airbnb is being forced to sell her three-bedroom unit in Aspen. The Aspen Time...

Satellite imagery company launches wildfire Twitter feed

SANTA FE, N.M. – A new tool for visualizing and tracking wildfires from the sky was launched on Twitter Wednesday by a New Mexico-based startup company, in an effort that combines super-comp...

U.S. eases Obama-era coal ash pollution rules for utilities

DENVER – The Trump administration on Wednesday eased rules for handling toxic coal ash from more than 400 U.S. coal-fired power plants after utilities pushed back against regulations adopted...

State governors caught in crossfire of Trump’s trade war

SANTA FE, N.M. – State governors are looking for ways to court foreign investment and commerce in the shadows of President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs in trade disputes with countries ...

Court finds religious entanglement by Douglas County School District

DENVER – A federal court has ruled that a Colorado school district violated the Constitution when it supported a Christian spring break mission trip in 2014. The Denver Post repor...

Colorado to accelerate cleanup of ‘orphaned’ oil, gas wells

DENVER – Colorado’s governor ordered state regulators on Wednesday to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells whose owners have walked away. Gov. John Hickenlooper al...

New Mexico AG seeks to void Hispanic land grant transfer

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said Wednesday he is seeking to void a 2003 land transfer from a historic Hispanic land grant on grounds it was illegal. ...

911 calls detail aftermath of deadly New Mexico bus crash

ALBUQUERUQE, N.M. – Some callers were breathless and others were crying as they flooded emergency phone lines to report the aftermath of a deadly weekend bus crash on a dark New Mexico highw...

Mesa County fair to continue with bear act despite protests

GRAND JUNCTION – A western Colorado fair says it will continue with a scheduled performance featuring live grizzly bears despite protests from animal advocates. Mesa County Fair...

Study links air pollution to drop in national park visitors

DENVER – Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what’s found in major cities, according t...

Judge asked to keep public away from ex-nuclear weapons plant

DENVER – A retired professor testified Tuesday he found evidence that billions of particles of plutonium had escaped from a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and settled on land that ...