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Tough to be a tree: Southwest Colorado’s forests are stressed

Drought, wildfire, bark beetles pose collective long-term threat

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Get Growing: 10 tips to winterize your garden

By Ann Bauer-Lasiewicz Here are 10 simple things you can do to get your garden ready for winter: Weed the garden: Yep. One more time to help eliminate those overwint...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. Forest Service hiring for temporary jobs

The U.S. Forest Service is hiring for temporary or seasonal jobs across the nation. Positions are in fire, trails, timber, administration, recreation, fisheries and archaeology. T...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Mercy Regional Medical Center awarded grant for suicide prevention

Mercy Regional Medical Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation and will join the foundation’s Zero Suicide Collaborative. The project will move Me...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Nonprofit app aims to help unblock global air travel

FRANKFURT, Germany – A nonprofit foundation is testing a smartphone app that could make it easier for international airline passengers to securely show they’ve complied with COVID-19 testing...

DATE: Nov 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Photo: Packed Mule Train Downtown â€“ Ca. 1900

DATE: Nov 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

More U.S. patients to have easy, free access to doctor’s notes

More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are ope...

DATE: Nov 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. agency sets rules for cruise ships to start sailing again

NEW YORK – Federal health officials on Friday issued new rules that will enable large cruise ships to start sailing again in U.S. waters, though not immediately. Among the require...

DATE: Nov 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Native American ruin northeast of Cortez gets permanent protections

Haynie site will be placed in conservation easement

DATE: Oct 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

2nd study testing a COVID-19 antibody drug has a setback

For the second time, a study testing an experimental antibody drug for COVID-19 has been paused to investigate a possible safety issue in hospitalized patients. Regeneron Pharmace...

DATE: Oct 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health