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Gov. Polis announces substantial drops in insurance rates

DENVER – Gov. Jared Polis says health insurance premiums are dropping substantially for Coloradans buying individual insurance plans on the state exchange next year. Polis told a ...

Colorado soldiers to catch drone buses at Fort Carson

COLORADO SPRINGS – An Army-supported research program has plans to bring robotic buses to Colorado troops at Fort Carson. The Gazette reports that the pilot program could eve...

Long a New Mexico icon, Spanish conquistador faces attacks

ALBUQUERQUE – The Spanish conquistador is an image found throughout New Mexico, the most Hispanic state in the United States. Depictions of such men as 17th century explorers Don ...

Politician charged in human trafficking adoption scheme

PHOENIX – An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the U.S., where they were cr...

Committee to examine Native American women’s deaths, disappearances

ALBUQUERQUE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has appointed eight members to a task force established to examine the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. She announced appo...

Colorado lawsuit seeks suspension of drilling permits

DENVER – A group opposed to hydraulic fracturing announced a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to halt new oil and gas drilling permits until updated regulations are in place. Colorado Ri...

Colorado doctor challenges firing over assisted suicide

DENVER – A Colorado doctor fired after tying to help a terminally ill man obtain drugs to end his life has filed an updated lawsuit that challenges her firing by a Christian hospital company...

Oil company lays off 178 workers, state government notified

GRAND JUNCTION – A Texas-based energy service provider has laid off 178 workers at its Colorado office saying it is a permanent employment loss. The Daily Sentinel reports that...

Colorado agency opposes potential train route from Utah

CRAIG – A Utah counties coalition has asked the federal government to pull a rail route from consideration after a Colorado agency expressed opposition. Craig Daily Press rep...

Report: New Mexico State sees jump in rapes, drug cases

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A new report says violent crimes are increasing at New Mexico State University. KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, reports that the university’s 2019 Annual Security Re...

Hearing set in Santa Fe for activist accused of rape

SANTA FE – A court hearing Wednesday in Santa Fe is scheduled to determine whether an activist accused of recording sexual assaults of unconscious women on video will be released from jail o...

Documents: New Mexico man shot infant, sought to kill mother

GALLUP, N.M. – A New Mexico man facing charges in connection with the shooting of an infant girl has admitted he accidentally fired the weapon, not the girl’s 3-year-old brother. ...