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Moose population swells at Colorado national park

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – The Holzwarth Historic Site in the Kawuneeche Valley on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park is unusually quiet for a mid-August night. At the height of summ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Control of Colorado Senate hinges on a handful of races

Keep an eye on Jefferson County when election results come in on Nov. 6. Three of the five races that will determine which party controls the Colorado Senate – and potentially could put the ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Netflix production hub incentive package clears first hurdle

ALBUQUERQUE – Part of a multimillion-dollar incentive package offered to Netflix for locating its new U.S. production hub in New Mexico has cleared its first hurdle. The Albuquerq...

DATE: Oct 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. Senate confirms top federal prosecutor for Colorado

DENVER – The U.S. Senate has confirmed Jason Dunn as the top federal prosecutor in Colorado. The Colorado Sun reports Dunn was confirmed Thursday night. Dunn has bee...

DATE: Oct 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Drug treatment program shows promising results in New Mexico

SANTA FE – A study released Thursday shows an initial reduction in arrests and other promising results from a pioneering drug treatment program in New Mexico in which police refer nonviolent...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado jury awards $3.6M to man assaulted in nursing home

DENVER – A Colorado jury has awarded $3.6 million to a 76-year-old retired school teacher with dementia who was assaulted by another resident at a senior living center in a Denver suburb. ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Border officials alarmed by migrants abandoned in desert

PHOENIX – Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of Guatemalan and other Central American migrants in Arizona’s harsh cactus-studded Sonoran Desert near the border with ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado homeowner shoots, kills apparent burglar

COLORADO SPRINGS – Police in Colorado Springs say a homeowner shot and killed an apparent burglar over the weekend. Investigators determine 30-year-old Houston Malachai Cookson wa...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Records: N.M. authorities raid ex-pageant director’s home

ALBUQUERQUE – Court documents show the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office has raided the home of the New Mexico beauty pageant’s former executive director. KOB-TV reports that i...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Things to know: The plan to save the ailing Colorado River

DENVER – The Colorado River is ailing, afflicted by a prolonged drought and increasing demand from seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the waterway. Those states tentati...

DATE: Oct 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers urge colleague to resign over old arrests

DENVER – Colorado’s state House leaders called Wednesday for the resignation of a fellow Democrat after a report that he had been arrested years ago for investigation of domestic violence. ...

DATE: Oct 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

450 drones detected flying illegally near Balloon Fiesta

ALBUQUERQUE – Hundreds of Balloon Fiesta attendees have been caught flying their drones in restricted areas at Albuquerque’s hot air balloon festival. KRQE-TV reported Tuesday tha...

DATE: Oct 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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