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Harassment probe involving Colorado senator closed

DENVER – Colorado’s Republican Senate president, Kevin Grantham, has closed a sexual misconduct investigation involving Sen. Jack Tate, a suburban Denver Republican. Colorado Poli...

Native American tribes get funding boost for crime victims

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Roughly $133 million is expected to be made available to tribes to support Native American and Alaska Native crime victims who advocates say had been largely left out of ...

Colorado House sends $29 billion budget bill to Senate

Transportation needs central to debate

Colorado’s Democrats try to block U.S. census citizenship question

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet joined a group of Senate colleagues this week in introducing a bill to block the Trump administration from asking residents about their citizen...

Drought expands across the Southwest

ALBUQUERQUE – Drought is tightening its grip across a wide swath of the American Southwest as farmers, ranchers and water managers throughout the region brace for what’s expected to be more ...

Denver airport train crossing guards set to be phased out

DENVER – The people who have been watching over traffic crossing along Denver’s airport train line since it opened are set to be phased out. The state Public Utilities Commission ...

Another New Mexico town seeks awareness on atomic bomb harm

CARRIZOZO, N.M. – A small, New Mexico railroad town that received a large part of the residue from the world’s first atomic bomb test is joining efforts to share stories about the test’s hea...

New Mexico voters warm to idea of professional Legislature

SANTA FE, N.M. – Voters in New Mexico may be warming to the idea of professionalizing the nation’s only unsalaried Legislature. A poll commissioned by the watchdog group Common Ca...

Tribe sues over death of Navajo woman shot by police officer

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation has sued the federal government and Winslow over the death of a scissors-wielding tribal member shot by a police officer for the northern Arizona city....

Colorado transportation bonds bill heads to House

DENVER – Colorado’s Republican-led Senate has unanimously approved a bill to ask voters in 2019 if the state can issue $3.5 billion in bonds for roads and bridges. The bill approv...

Former Navajo Nation official pleads no contest to thefts

GALLUP, N.M. – A former manager of a Navajo Nation chapter in Tuba City, Arizona, has pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the theft of more than $1 million in chapter funds. ...

Navajo-owned company to fix road to access abandoned mines

COVE, Ariz. – A small Navajo-owned company has been awarded a contract to upgrade a road needed to clean up abandoned uranium mine sites on the reservation. The U.S. Environment...