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Elizabeth Smart upset one of her kidnappers to be freed early

SALT LAKE CITY – A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 will be freed from prison more than five years earlier than expected, a surprise decisio...

DATE: Sep 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Moon rock hunter closes in on tracking down missing stones

SALT LAKE CITY – A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, a...

DATE: Sep 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Small private college abandons ‘prestige’ tuition pricing

SANTA FE – A private liberal arts college with campuses in New Mexico and Maryland announced Wednesday a $17,000 reduction in its annual tuition, while acknowledging that steady price increa...

DATE: Sep 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New hunting options create buzz at New Mexico refuge

SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.M. – The phones are ringing at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico now that the U.S. government has expanded hunting at the refuge ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado objects to Trump administration’s public land rules

DENVER – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday the Trump administration is not giving the public nearly enough time to comment on plans to drill for oil and gas on vast tracts of publ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Marijuana use suspected in fatal I-70 crash in Colorado

IDAHO SPRINGS – The Colorado State Patrol says a woman killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Interstate 70 is suspected of being under the influence of marijuana at the time. K...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Candidates for governor clash on plans for rural Colorado

Stapleton releases plan; Polis asks, what took so long?

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s drought set to be fourth worst on record

Southwest Colorado may see record lows

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo activists protest company eyeing coal-fired plant

New York-based company says a decision has not been reached

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico AG critical of rolling back methane rules

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is criticizing the Trump administration’s move to roll back rules intended to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations. ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawsuit over Thompson Divide drilling dismissed after deal

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – A lawsuit challenging the cancellation of oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in western Colorado is over. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn di...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cannabis sector funds Democratic bid for governor

SANTA FE – Democratic New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham is collecting campaign cash from cannabis companies in the countdown to the November general election. ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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