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Colorado heads into snowpack season with low reservoirs – but some hope

La Niña could mean dry winter for southern Colorado, but conditions are better than this time last year

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Proposition 119: Colorado voters will decide whether to raise marijuana taxes to pay for out-of-school learning

Supporters say it will help close achievement gap, opponents see it as a slippery slope toward privatizing education

DATE: Oct 7, 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

Latest Colorado legislative draft maps would leave Democrats in control

Commission sets Oct. 12 as deadline to vote on final state House, Senate maps

DATE: Oct 6, 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

Proposition 120: Voters will decide if Colorado property taxes will go down – at least for some

Proponents say effort could reduce rents, opponents say it will hurt schools, fire departments

DATE: Oct 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado woman moves on after surviving 1984 hammer attack

DENVER (AP) – On a frigid January night in 1984, Kim Rice woke to a flash of pain and sat up in bed to see a stranger’s silhouette, his arm raised to strike another blow with a hammer. She s...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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

Southwest hits impressive rainfall during summer monsoon

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Cities across the Southwest hit impressive rainfall totals this summer, bringing much-needed – but temporary – relief to a region that has been mired in drought. The winte...

DATE: Oct 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News