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The annual “Singing with Santa” caroling procession and community Christmas tree lighting will be held Friday. Each year, about 1,000 children and their parents gather for the event. Caroler...

DATE: Nov 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Statewide mask mandate ‘not something we’re considering,’ Polis says

As three metro Denver counties enact some version of a mask requirement this week, Gov. Jared Polis reiterated during a COVID-19 update Tuesday that a statewide order is not in the cards. In...

DATE: Nov 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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Durango Police Department Tuesday 4:30 a.m. Someone reported a large trash can was on fire in the 1100 block of South Camino del Rio. Monday 8:08 a.m. Someone reported a stolen ve...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Xcel files plan to close coal-fired power plant in Pueblo

DENVER – Xcel Energy has proposed a tentative agreement to close Colorado’s largest coal-fired power plant by 2035, well ahead of its original retirement date of 2070, as regulators consider...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hiker finds remains of fourth, final victim of Colorado flood

FORT COLLINS – A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire, authorit...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver imposes mask mandate in indoor public places

DENVER – Denver is joining other nearby counties in imposing a mask mandate in public places, a move which officials said Tuesday was needed to prevent the region’s hospital system from coll...

DATE: Nov 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tina Peters appears with militia supporters in video call that included endorsement of violence

Election denier Shawn Smith warns ‘it’s going to get very dangerous’

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado state workers to get pay raises for the next three years

The new contract sets a minimum wage of $15 per hour

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

KC Becker, former Colorado House speaker, appointed to lead regional EPA office

The Democrat was a prime sponsor of Senate Bill 181 in 2019, a measure that rewrote Colorado’s oil and gas regulations

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

3 teens arrested in shooting at suburban Denver high school

AURORA – Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora have arrested three teenagers in connection with the shooting of three students in a high school parking lot on Friday, a Colorado newspaper re...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Weekly planner for Nov. 22-26

Information and agendas about local meetings: City of Durango: www.durangogov.org or call 375-5000. La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield...

DATE: Nov 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver suburb to pay $15M to settle Elijah McClain lawsuit

DENVER – The Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him...

DATE: Nov 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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