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Denver teachers plan strike in contract dispute

DENVER – Denver teachers said they plan to strike next week after Colorado officials declined to intervene Wednesday in a pay dispute between the educators and the school district. ...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado panel takes up birth certificate modernization bill

DENVER – LGTBQ advocates are confident Colorado’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will finally pass a bill allowing persons who change their gender identity to obtain new birth certificates....

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado officials agree to remove freeze on state mental hospital beds for non-prisoners

State officials have reportedly agreed to reverse a two-month old policy that had limited admissions to all state-run mental hospitals to only people already in the criminal justice system. ...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

After years of simmering tug-of-war, Colorado Democrats eye action on oil and gas

Colorado’s new Democratic majority has vowed to make big changes to how companies drill for oil and gas. Tension between drillers and residents have bubbled for years and culminated in a fai...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ex-New Mexico athletic head charged with fraud, laundering

ALBUQUERQUE – Former University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs has been charged with fraud and money laundering. The attorney general’s office filed a criminal complai...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Acting Interior secretary to visit New Mexico oil region

HOBBS, N.M. – Federal officials say acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt plans to visit a city at the center of New Mexico’s oil country on Wednesday to promote energy development on pu...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s I-70 reopens after rock slide

Interstate 70 in western Colorado is back open after a rock slide sent boulders the size of big SUVs tumbling down on part of the highway. State transportation officials opened bo...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Votes on minimum wage, abortion rights loom in New Mexico

SANTA FE – The state House of Representatives is poised to vote on Democratic-sponsored bills to raise the statewide minimum wage, guarantee abortion rights and replace the Columbus Day holi...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver-area immigration center adds annex with 432 beds

DENVER – The Denver area’s immigration detention center has added 432 new beds to the facility and expects to have them nearly filled by the end of the week. The Denver Post re...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fiesta de Santa Fe to allow married, divorced ‘La Reina’

SANTA FE – Organizers of an annual Santa Fe fiesta that once honored a 17th-century Spanish conquistador have changes rules for the high-profile role of La Reina. The Santa Fe ...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 bodies recovered from frozen lake in western Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION â€“ Search and rescue crews have recovered the bodies of two men who drove a tracked snow vehicle onto a frozen lake and fell through the ice in western Colorado. T...

DATE: Feb 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police suspect New Mexico blast that killed 1 was suicide

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Police said Tuesday they suspect a man who died in an explosion behind an Albuquerque, New Mexico, strip mall intended to kill himself. The improvised device e...

DATE: Feb 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News