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Partisan bills compete to reform hard-rock mining laws

Democrats and Republicans propose different solutions

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado senators lead way on legalization of marijuana

Lawmakers say lack of banking services is a safety concern

DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wilderness bill gains local momentum, lacks congressional bipartisan support

County commissioners, mayors and ranchers travel to the nation’s capital

DATE: Apr 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sen. Michael Bennet aims to tackle childhood poverty with tax credit

Bill targeted to help lower-income families

DATE: Mar 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

GOP senators to watch on Trump’s emergency declaration

WASHINGTON – The fight about President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall is heading to the GOP-controlled Senate, putting Republicans in the uncomfortable spot of deciding whether to ba...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado Democrats, Republicans express concern about Trump’s state of emergency

Colorado Democrat and Republican representatives expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump’s state of emergency declaration to gain funding for a southern border wall. ...

DATE: Feb 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senate to vote on partisan bills to reopen federal government

Colorado congressmen double-down along party lines

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Farm bill exempts pure maple, honey from added sugars label

MONTPELIER, Vt. – The new farm bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday prevents maple syrup and honey producers from being required to list their pure products as containing added sugars o...

DATE: Dec 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Gardner, Bennet seek more funding for wildfire suppression

Letters sent to committee cite need for air tankers, water-scooper fleet

DATE: Nov 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

FBI reaches out to Deborah Ramirez, Brett Kavanaugh’s Colo. accuser

WASHINGTON – The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nomin...

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Durangoans take to the streets to protest Kavanaugh nomination

Residents line Camino del Rio at rush hour

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

John McCain, ‘maverick’ of the Senate and former POW, dies at 81

Senator made campaign stop in Durango in 2008.

DATE: Aug 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

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