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Criminal probe sought on pro-Los Alamos agency over spending

SANTA FE – An environmental group is asking the New Mexico attorney general to launch a criminal investigation into an agency that promotes the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The...

New Mexico local districts to see election cost jump

HOBBS, N.M. – Lea County school districts, hospital districts and the New Mexico Junior College all will likely see jumps in election costs next year because of the state’s new local electio...

World War II pilot gets in-person thanks from son of man he saved

GLENWOOD SPRINGS (AP) – Miles apart from one another, two men celebrated a single day in history as their defining moment. One of the men, 1st Lt. Philip S. (Pots) Wilmot, of Glen...

Governors say ban on land deals could hurt beleaguered greater sage grouse

DENVER – Some governors in the U.S. West say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a beleaguered bird scattered across their regio...

Woman plummets to death while hiking off Mount Royal trail

FRISCO – Authorities say a woman who was hiking off trail on Mount Royal in Frisco, Colorado, tripped and fell 100 feet to her death. Summit County Rescue Group spokesman Charle...

Rafters, anglers worry as Colorado’s whitewater becomes low water

Some companies move operations to other rivers

Outgoing state historian: History Colorado is ‘underperforming’ with ‘history lite’ exhibits

When Patty Limerick was tapped to be Colorado’s next State Historian in 2015, she says she was looking forward to working with History Colorado. It did not take long for that relationship to...

Colorado agrees to $1M settlement over strip searches

PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado officials have agreed to pay $1 million to the families of 20 developmentally disabled patients who were strip searched without permission from their families or gua...

San Juan OKs measure on employee rights on union dues, fees

AZTEC, N.M. – San Juan County is the latest New Mexico county to approve a ordinance giving private-sector employees in unincorporated areas the right to choose whether to pay union dues or ...

Report: New Mexico school shooter visited ‘Neo-Nazi’ sites

AZTEC – A new report says a man accused of killing two students during a New Mexico school shooting visited “Neo-Nazi” websites and sought out people obsessed with school shootings. ...

Man who wore clown makeup in Colorado killing gets 42 years

DENVER – A man who was wearing claw-like gloves and clown-style makeup when he stabbed a man to death in Denver last year has been sentenced to 42 years in prison. Thirty-seven-...

Recreation area to reopen in northern New Mexico forest

TAOS, N.M. – A recreation area in Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico is about to reopen for public use after being closed several years because of a safety hazard. Fo...