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Ducey blasts Phoenix for closing parks on Easter weekend

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey escalated a long-simmering fight with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on Friday by demanding the city drop its plans to close parking lots and grills at city par...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Activists call for probe into air quality official’s actions

DENVER (AP) – A Colorado environmental coalition is demanding that Gov. Jared Polis remove the director of the state Air Pollution Control Division, who is named in a whistleblower complaint...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports five more COVID-19 cases, five more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Thursday reported five new COVID-19 cases and five deaths. The tribe had reported no deaths in three of the previous four days and six of...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Avalanche report shows man died after being swept off cliff

FRISCO – A final report by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center has revealed that a man who died after being caught in a small avalanche in Colorado last month was swept over a 75-foot ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police kill man during confrontation in suburban Denver

LAKEWOOD – An investigation is underway after police shot and killed a man during a confrontation in suburban Denver. Lakewood police were called to an apartment complex just befo...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico primed to join recreational pot wave

Lawmakers push legislation through in special session; governor’s signature awaits

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver man falls to death in Rocky Mountain National Park

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – A 33-year-old Denver man died after falling about 50 feet from a rock outcropping in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. Park officials say the...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Democrats pick Melanie Stansbury to seek congressional seat

SANTA F – Democratic Party leaders have picked state Rep. Melanie Stansbury as the nominee to defend an Albuquerque-based congressional seat left open by newly confirmed Secretary of the Int...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

First female chief justice of Colorado Supreme Court dies

DENVER – The first female Supreme Court chief justice of Colorado has died after living for years with multiple sclerosis. Mary Mullarkey, who was 77, died Wednesday. She spent 23...

DATE: Mar 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Senate OKs bills to legalize recreational pot

SANTA FE – A New Mexico proposal to legalize recreational marijuana in the state for adults ages 21 and older has cleared its last major hurdle as legislators prepared to send the bill to th...

DATE: Mar 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to open up vaccine eligibility next week

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico will be expanding vaccine eligibility next week to everyone 16 years of age and older, state health officials said Wednesday. The federal government has d...

DATE: Mar 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge tosses New Mexico rancher’s claim after he kills wolf

SANTA FE – A federal judge has tossed a rancher’s claim that he should still have the right to use federal land in New Mexico after it was revoked for killing a wolf. Craig Thiess...

DATE: Mar 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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