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Colorado governor announces new state park in western mountains

DENVER – A private ranch with ponds, springs and rare wetland plants in Colorado’s western mountains will be part of a new state park, Gov. Jared Polis announced Wednesday. Joined by state a...

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado judge charged with felony menacing loses leadership job

DENVER – A Colorado state judge was removed from his leadership position after being charged with felony menacing on Saturday. Judge Mark Thompson, the chief judge for the 5th Judicial Distr...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor settles harassment claim for $150K

SANTA FE – The final price tag for a settlement reached by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and a former campaign spokesman to settle accusations of harassment is now $150,000. The la...

DATE: Oct 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

West Nile virus cases climbing in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS – West Nile virus infections and deaths are both up in Colorado from last year, and there have been more cases so far than at any point since 2016, according to data from th...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Salmonella outbreak tied to seafood sickens 82 in Colorado

DENVER – A salmonella outbreak tied to seafood that Denver-based Northeast Seafood Products Inc. processed or manufactured has sickened at least 82 Coloradans in 14 counties. Of 102 people i...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments downsized by Trump in 2017

DATE: Oct 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Boebert challenger suspends fundraising, cites redistricting

DENVER – A leading Democratic challenger to Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in next year’s election, Colorado state Sen. Kerry Donovan, has suspended fundraising for her campaign after t...

DATE: Oct 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New landmark recognizes Chinese contributions to Yosemite

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – A century-old building originally used as a laundry by Chinese workers at Yosemite’s iconic Wawona Hotel has been restored and turned into a visitor's attrac...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

Denver Zoo apologizes a decade after visitor's death

DENVER – The Denver Zoo has apologized more than a decade after a Black man died after a confrontation with police on zoo grounds. Zoo president Bert Vescolani on Friday publicly apologized ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Homes evacuated by wildfire burning in Colorado mountains

SILVERTHORNE – The residents of several hundred homes have been evacuated or warned to be ready to leave because of a wildfire burning in Colorado’s north-central mountains. Evacuations were...

DATE: Sep 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Family files lawsuit over deadly balloon crash in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – The family of a passenger on a hot air balloon that crashed and killed five people in Albuquerque in June is suing the estate of the dead pilot and the companies that operated...

DATE: Sep 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Official: New Mexico ranchers capture Texas homicide suspect

ROSWELL, N.M. – A manhunt for a Texas homicide suspect ended Tuesday in rural southeastern New Mexico when ranchers detained the man at gunpoint and handed him over to sheriff’s deputies, a ...