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Injured hiker air lifted off Maroon Peak in Colorado

ASPEN – A 56-year-old Texas man has been rescued from Colorado’s Maroon Peak after he fell 100 feet into a gully. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Keith Br...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

FAA grants Spaceport Colorado an operator license

DENVER – Federal regulators have granted Spaceport Colorado its operator license, making it the 11th facility in the country that could one day accommodate next-generation space vehicles. ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Popular corpse flower expected to bloom in September

DENVER – The Denver Botanic Gardens’ corpse flower is expected to bloom in all its rotting-corpse-smelling glory in early to mid-September. The Denver Post reports horticulturalis...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque makes progress on rape kit backlog

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s most populous city has made some progress to clear its backlog of untested rape kits as state public safety officials are close to erasing their own backlog. ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico wind-powered transmission project faces more opposition

ALBUQUERQUE – The SunZia project’s road to commercial operation is facing a new round of controversy, this time from community groups that fear the transmission line from New Mexico to Arizo...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Proposed Wyoming wind farm could power Colorado cities

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A proposed wind energy project in southern Wyoming could provide power to more than 70,000 homes in several communities in northern Colorado. The Wyoming Tribune ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Interior Department cancels proposal to sell former monument land in Utah

Zinke had said it would unload parts of Grand-Staircase Escalante

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sacred Navajo symbols often confused for swastikas

DENVER (AP) – The rug had several columns, with bright red squares down the center and a few lining the edges of a neutral-colored background. At first glance, the square-shaped symbols look...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Officials investigate cause of death for Colorado mom, kids

FREDERICK – The bodies of two young girls were submerged in crude oil for four days before authorities discovered them, according to court documents filed by an attorney defending the girls’...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawyer fears that wildfire defendant will be made scapegoat

ASPEN – A lawyer for one of two people charged with starting a western Colorado wildfire says he’s worried that “mob rule” will lead to unfair treatment of his client. The Aspen D...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

UNM regents vote to uphold contested athletics cuts

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Regents at New Mexico’s flagship university on Friday voted for a second time to cut men’s soccer and other teams, citing longstanding financial challenges within the tro...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado girls’ bodies were submerged in crude oil 4 days

FREDERICK – The bodies of two young girls were submerged in crude oil for four days before authorities discovered them on Thursday, according to court documents filed Friday by an attorney d...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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