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Cortez City Hall reopens to regular business hours

Return to regular business hours after COVID-19 closure

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dollars, not politics, are driving Colorado’s embrace of solar energy

Installing solar utility generation is now cheaper than wind or natural gas-fired plants, and far cheaper than new coal generation

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Protesters return to home of public health director in Durango

Group formed across street, ‘outside the prohibited zone,’ police chief says

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Record low Lake Powell and bad forecast set stage for water cuts

Dire projections reservoirs triggers drought planning across seven states

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Biden’s pause on oil and gas splits conservationists, industry

Conservationists see chance to overhaul system. Producers predict billions in losses

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sanctuary movement will call on Biden to free Rosa Sabido, others in sanctuary

News conference planned for 11 a.m. Tuesday

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Democrats push to enshrine abortion rights in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Democratic legislators are redoubling efforts to repeal New Mexico’s dormant, 50-year-old ban on most abortion procedures that could go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court overt...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Black girls held at gunpoint in Colorado, mother sue police

DENVER – Four Black girls who were mistakenly detained by Colorado police at gunpoint over a suspected stolen car filed a civil lawsuit against police and the city of Aurora on Monday. ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado judges deny many virus requests to release inmates

COLORADO SPRINGS – Out of dozens of requests for sentence reductions from inmates with health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic, federal judges in Colorado approved just three in the fi...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

School bill challenges New Mexico virus restrictions

SANTA FE – A bipartisan group of New Mexico lawmakers is pushing legislation that would allow more students to attend class in person by shifting authority over decisions to reopen from stat...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Navajo Nation reports 133 new COVID-19 cases, 7 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation health officials are reporting 133 new COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths as a revised public health order is set to take effect. The latest f...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Winter storms bring relief to parched Arizona, New Mexico

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The precipitation from a series of winter storms in Flagstaff is more than the city had during last summer’s monsoon season, and even more is coming, weather forecasters s...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News