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New Mexico launches new anti-DWI campaign with mask twist

SANTA FE – New Mexico is launching a new anti-drunken driving campaign that also encourages people to wear face coverings and keep their distance from one another. Officials said ...

Johnson & Wales to close Colorado, Florida campuses

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Johnson & Wales University will close its Florida and Colorado campuses at the end of the next academic year as it pivots away from its image as a hospitality and culinary...

Tribe, environmentalists fight rollback of U.S. water rule

ALBUQUERQUE – The nation’s largest Native American tribe and several environmental groups are waging a legal challenge to a revised federal rule that lifts protections for many streams, cree...

Air Force Academy turns to cadets to name new falcon mascot

COLORADO SPRINGS – The U.S. Air Force Academy welcomed a new mascot into its ranks and will break with tradition by allowing cadets to name the falcon. The service academy’s stude...

Arizona starts talks on addressing dwindling Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Arizona is getting a jump-start on what will be a yearslong process to address a dwindling but key water source in the U.S. West. Several states and Mexico re...

New Mexico undersheriff, others charged months after brawl

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – A New Mexico undersheriff is facing charges stemming from a brawl at a Valentine’s Day dance. San Miguel County Undersheriff Mike Padilla was charged with misdem...

Colorado Shambhala member given 20 years for child sex abuse

BOULDER – A former member of a Colorado Shambhala Buddhist center who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Michael Smith, 55, plead...

Pueblo police shoot, kill armed man during confrontation

PUEBLO – Authorities have released the name of a man who was shot and killed by police during a confrontation in southern Colorado. The Pueblo Chieftain reports 43-year-old Kev...

Coronavirus spreading among younger people across Colorado

Over last 25 days, those under 30 accounted for about 40% of state’s cases

Colorado: Toxic chemicals below limits in drinking water

DENVER – Sampling of drinking water sources throughout Colorado found no levels of a class of toxic chemicals that exceed nonbinding standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

U.S. Energy Department fined $304K over waste documentation

SANTA FE – The U.S. Department of Energy has been fined $304,000 over missed deadlines in documenting waste shipments at Los Alamos National Laboratory, department officials said. ...

Navajo Nation president: New Mexico still failing students

SANTA FE – The leader of one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. called Wednesday for the governor of New Mexico to end efforts to fight a court ruling that orders improvements...