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Manitou Springs Cliff Dwellings spark conversation about preservation and Indigenous history

Dwellings were taken from their original site in Southwest Colorado

DATE: Dec 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Best bets in and around Durango

Volunteers from Blue Star Mothers, Daughters of the American Revolution, American Heritage Girls and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be at local cemeteries at 10 a.m. Saturday for a Wreath...

DATE: Dec 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado seeks to bolster fentanyl fight amid overdose crisis

DENVER – Colorado officials on Thursday announced legislation that would boost law enforcement resources to fight the distribution of fentanyl, part of efforts to stem an opioid crisis that ...

DATE: Dec 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sen. John Hickenlooper says ‘time to change the filibuster’ to protect voting rights

Democrats raise alarm over moves to disenfranchise voters in some states

DATE: Dec 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado dog that was missing for 2 weeks rescued from ledge

COLORADO SPRINGS – A dog missing for two weeks in Colorado was rescued from a ledge about 50 yards above a creek and is now back home. An animal control officer with the Humane Society of th...

DATE: Dec 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As climate vote nears, communities worry it will reduce funding for road projects

Proposed rule is part of state’s plan to reduce emissions

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Blotter

Durango Police Department Monday 3:18 a.m. Someone reported that a man and a woman had been in a fight in the lower 100 block of Primrose Circle. 3:47 p.m. Someone reported that thei...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado Rockies, plains pummeled by powerful wind storm

DENVER – High winds whipped across the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday, knocking out power, closing roads and highways and forcing the cancellation or delay of hundreds of flights. The Nation...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Storm knocks out power to thousands of homes on Navajo, Hopi reservations

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Residents across the Navajo Nation were without power Wednesday after a storm that packed powerful wind moved across the region. Navajo Tribal Utility Authority spokeswo...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Increase in Colorado’s property crime rate bucks national trend, report says

Democratic state lawmakers dispute claim that pretrial reforms are to blame

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Trucker gets 110 years in prison for fatal Colorado pileup

GOLDEN – A truck driver who was convicted of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on Interstate 70 west of Denver was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Veteran reunited with bracelet stolen during World War II

DENVER (AP) – When Joe Esquibel was just a teenager and about to be sent off to World War II, he bought himself a keepsake: a small, silver bracelet. On one side, he had the engraver add his...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News