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Denver’s airport reopens after powerful winter storm

DENVER – Denver’s airport reopened Monday after a powerful late winter snowstorm dumped over 3 feet of heavy, wet snow on parts of Colorado and Wyoming, shutting down roads, closing state le...

Cost to fortify New Mexico Statehouse is $700K and growing

SANTA FE – Troops, extra police details and fences cordoning off the New Mexico state Capitol grounds and adjacent streets from public access have cost taxpayers at least $700,000 in police ...

Albuquerque schools to resume in-person learning on April 5

ALBUQUERQUE – With the slowing of the coronavirus outbreak, Albuquerque Public Schools will resume in-person learning for five days a week on April 5 though students can continue remote lear...

In a pandemic, Navajo community steps up for its vulnerable

TEESTO, Ariz. – For as long as Raymond Clark has lived alone on this quiet stretch of the Navajo Nation under the watch of the “Praying Mountain,” he has depended on everyone yet no one. ...

Airline passenger accused of refusing mask, then urinating

DENVER – A Colorado man accused of disrupting an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver by refusing to wear a mask and then standing up and urinating in the cabin faces a federal char...

Colorado reports most killings in 2020 in 25 years

DENVER – There were more people per capita in Colorado who were killed last year than there have been in 25 years, according to state data. The state Bureau of Investigation repor...

FBI offers reward in probe of October death in Shiprock

FARMINGTON– The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward as it continues to investigate the suspicious death of a Navajo Nation man whose body was found in October along a highway in Shiprock. ...

Colorado reaches $10.2 billion in marijuana sales since 2014

DENVER – Colorado marijuana sales have surpassed $10 billion since the state’s recreational market began in 2014 – thanks in large part to a record-setting 2020 in which businesses sold $2.2...

U.S. says ranger tried to diffuse run-in before using Taser

ALBUQUERQUE – A National Park Service ranger used a stun gun on a man who identifies as Native American after trying repeatedly to diffuse a confrontation on federal land in New Mexico, acco...

Governor eyes mid-April to open vaccines for all in Colorado

DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said he expects every resident to be eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine by mid-April, a faster timeline than what President Joe Biden previously annou...

Two found alive, one dead after stranded in Colorado wilderness

CRAIG – A woman and her two children were found Thursday by aircraft after they spent two nights in the northwestern Colorado wilderness, authorities said. The Moffat County sheri...

New Mexico state Senate passes hair discrimination bill

SANTA FE – The New Mexico state Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on traditional hairstyles and head coverings. If signed into law, hair-based disc...