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Temperature in Phoenix spikes to hottest of the year

PHOENIX – The temperature in Phoenix hit a whopping 115 degrees Tuesday, making it the city’s hottest day so far this year. The scorching weather prompted an excessive heat warnin...

Museum ends excavation of dinosaur fossils in Denver suburb

DENVER – A Colorado museum has completed its excavation of dinosaur fossils and put some of the bones on display. The Denver Post reports the Denver Museum of Nature & Science ...

New Mexico leases ranch land to Epstein company

SANTA FE – New Mexico state land regulators are reviewing property leases to a company controlled by financier Jeffrey Epstein in light of federal charges that he sexually abused underage gi...

Moving BLM headquarters brings praise, prompts questions

Land agency will be based in Grand Junction

Colorado woman convicted of poisoning father found in cement

DENVER – A Colorado woman has been convicted of poisoning her father and encasing his body in concrete in a crawl space under his home. The Denver Post reports 45-year-old Dayn...

Police ask for help finding people from immigration protest

DENVER – Police are asking for help identifying people they believe were involved in the removal of an American flag during a protest at an immigration detention center in suburban Denver. ...

Polis: Colorado reinsurance will slash health premiums

DENVER – Colorado health insurance premiums on the individual market set up under the Affordable Care Act could drop markedly next year once the federal government approves a state reinsuran...

FBI: Body found in trunk of burning car in New Mexico

CHURCH ROCK, N.M. – Authorities say a body has been found in the trunk of a burning car in northwestern New Mexico. The FBI says the body and burning car found Monday in an isol...

Phoenix could reach hottest temperature of the year

PHOENIX – Phoenix braced Tuesday for what could be the city’s hottest day so far this year, with temperatures potentially topping out at 115 degrees. The mercury already reached 1...

Court upholds new districts in Navajo voting-rights case

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld newly drawn voting districts in a Utah county after a judge had found the old boundaries amounted to racial gerrymandering and viol...

Colorado confirms more than 2 dozen cases of animal virus

DENVER – Colorado officials are asking ranchers to report sick animals after a disease that primarily affects horses and cattle has been confirmed in the state. The state Departme...

Colorado’s Yampa River opens for commercial tubing season

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – Conditions on a Colorado river are meeting standards for commercial tubing companies to open their doors for the first time this summer. Steamboat Pilot & T...