Ad

U.S. won’t fight look at Montana’s largest coal mine

BILLINGS, Mont. – The U.S. Interior Department won’t fight a court recommendation for the agency to take a new look at the environmental effects of burning fuel from Montana’s largest coal m...

Large crowds expected to honor dead in Tucson

Event one of the largest in the U.S.

Rare bison free to roam in northern Colorado

FORT COLLINS – The gate is open, at last, and 10 bison that have spent the past 11 days in a wooden corral the size of a high school gymnasium are free to leave. But they’re not ...

Region Briefs

Colorado pot shop opens gas station COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado marijuana dispensary is opening what is thought to be the world’s first combination pot dispensary and gas statio...

N.M. museum unveils rare Bisti fossil find

ALBUQUERQUE – Paleontologists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science have unveiled the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered as hundreds of people lined up to get...

N.M. school districts see low test scores

Small school districts perform poorly on exams

Sexting at Cañon City High School leads to suspensions

Widespread case at southern Colorado school; football team forfeits last game

Hickenlooper tests AG’s power to sue federal government

DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper asked the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday to rule that he, not the state’s attorney general, has the final say on whether to sue the federal government. ...

GOP eyes Utah driver’s license model for New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – A Republican lawmaker who has previously sought to repeal New Mexico’s immigrant driver’s license law said he will propose a bill next session modeled after one in Utah that al...

Jefferson County voters boot out conservative school board members

DENVER – Suburban Denver voters on Tuesday ousted three conservative school board members who changed the way teachers are paid and briefly considered reviewing a U.S. history curriculum to ...

Albuquerque lays slain officer to rest

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Hundreds of law enforcement officers stood in salute on Tuesday, watching as the flag-draped casket of one of their own – a fallen Albuquerque police veteran – was wheele...

Witnesses describe gunman’s rampage in Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS – Witnesses on Sunday described a terrifying scene on the streets of Colorado Springs, where a gunman armed with a rifle marched down a city street and shot and killed three...