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If Colorado River keeps drying up, a century-old agreement could be threatened

Rapid decline of water source could soon cause problems between states

DATE: Nov 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP Rep. Boebert apologizes to Muslims for Omar remarks

DENVER – Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized Friday for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter she had with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In h...

DATE: Nov 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Best bets in and around Durango

The annual “Singing with Santa” caroling procession and community Christmas tree lighting will be held Friday. Each year, about 1,000 children and their parents gather for the event. Caroler...

DATE: Nov 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Statewide mask mandate ‘not something we’re considering,’ Polis says

As three metro Denver counties enact some version of a mask requirement this week, Gov. Jared Polis reiterated during a COVID-19 update Tuesday that a statewide order is not in the cards. In...

DATE: Nov 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Blotter

Durango Police Department Tuesday 4:30 a.m. Someone reported a large trash can was on fire in the 1100 block of South Camino del Rio. Monday 8:08 a.m. Someone reported a stolen ve...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Xcel files plan to close coal-fired power plant in Pueblo

DENVER – Xcel Energy has proposed a tentative agreement to close Colorado’s largest coal-fired power plant by 2035, well ahead of its original retirement date of 2070, as regulators consider...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hiker finds remains of fourth, final victim of Colorado flood

FORT COLLINS – A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire, authorit...

DATE: Nov 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver imposes mask mandate in indoor public places

DENVER – Denver is joining other nearby counties in imposing a mask mandate in public places, a move which officials said Tuesday was needed to prevent the region’s hospital system from coll...

DATE: Nov 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tina Peters appears with militia supporters in video call that included endorsement of violence

Election denier Shawn Smith warns ‘it’s going to get very dangerous’

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado state workers to get pay raises for the next three years

The new contract sets a minimum wage of $15 per hour

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

KC Becker, former Colorado House speaker, appointed to lead regional EPA office

The Democrat was a prime sponsor of Senate Bill 181 in 2019, a measure that rewrote Colorado’s oil and gas regulations

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

3 teens arrested in shooting at suburban Denver high school

AURORA – Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora have arrested three teenagers in connection with the shooting of three students in a high school parking lot on Friday, a Colorado newspaper re...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News