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Man who threw snowboarder off lift could be released

ASPEN – Doctors at the state psychiatric hospital in Pueblo want to release a man who pushed a snowboarder off a chairlift at Aspen Highlands nearly four years ago. The Aspen T...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: New Mexico construction job boom drive by oil, gas

SANTA FE – The construction job boom continues in New Mexico thanks in large part to the oil and gas boom in the southeastern corner of the state. The Santa Fe New Mexican repo...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former police officer acknowledges stealing from charities

DENVER – A former police officer in suburban Denver has pleaded guilty to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from two department charities. KCNC-TV reports 39-year-old Roland A...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gas balloon teams reach Canada in annual distance contest

ALBUQUERQUE – Polish balloon pilot Krzysztof Zapart and American teammate Andy Cayton are the apparent winners of the 2019 America’s Challenge gas balloon race. The team crossed t...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

El Malpais monument closes cave to protect hibernating bats

GRANTS, N.M. – Junction Cave at El Malpais National Monument is closed for the season. Monument officials said Friday that the closure is expected to be in effect until April to e...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Greta Thunberg tells Denver rally: ‘We are the change’

DENVER – Young people must be prepared to continue striking to call for action on climate change for a long time and not back down, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told a climate str...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. forest managers want judge to revisit tree-cutting ban

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Forest Service wants a federal judge to reconsider an order that halted tree-cutting across thousands of square miles of forest in the Southwest, saying efforts to add...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Not real news: Looking at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Duran drops bid for U.S. Rep. DeGette’s Denver seat

DENVER – Former Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran has ended her campaign for the U.S. House seat occupied by fellow Democrat Diana DeGette. Duran told supporters in an email F...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Alice Madden ends Democratic Senate primary campaign

DENVER – Another campaign for the Democratic nomination to face Sen. Cory Gardner next year is ending. This time, it’s former state legislative leader Alice Madden. Madden in a st...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque keeps pursuing panhandling ordinance

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque is continuing its pursuit of an ordinance that would restrict panhandling despite a judge’s ruling that the city’s law is an unconstitutional restriction on free sp...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man resentenced to life in prison in 1994 killing

FARMINGTON – A man sentenced to death in the 1994 strangulation killing of a 17-year-old Flora Vista girl has been resentenced to life in prison in response to a New Mexico Supreme Court dec...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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