The Bundy family, on trial

On Oct. 27, in federal district court, a jury delivered a not-guilty verdict for Ryan and Ammon Bundy and five other defendants, on charges stemming from their 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s...

DATE: Dec. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

State regulators consider measure to cull deer predators

State regulators are considering allowing the hunting of mule deer predators in some parts of western Colorado in an effort to increase deer populations. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission...

DATE: Dec. 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado approves another round of pot research

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Tuesday announced $2.35 million in grant funding for marijuana-related research studies to address potential public health and safety...

DATE: Dec. 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wildlife officials offer tips for avoiding collisions

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are reminding drivers that with dusk arriving earlier as a result of the time change the chances increase for collisions with wildlife on the roads. “The...

DATE: Nov. 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

FLC students return from Standing Rock, plan protest

On the heels of returning from the protests at Standing Rock, more than 100 Fort Lewis College students, staffers and alumni are planning a rally in opposition to the controversial oil pipeline...

DATE: Nov. 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

How an 'awakened giant' shook up Election Day

Add this to the list of stunning upsets in this year’s election: President-elect Donald Trump, who ran a campaign fixated on an anti-immigrant platform, captured more of the Latino vote than Mitt...

DATE: Nov. 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Election roundup: What happened in the West?

Big-ticket issues — from marijuana legalization to healthcare, carbon taxes to minimum wage — and key House and Senate races took center stage on Western state ballots this election. The region...

DATE: Nov. 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Trump’s triumph is seen as mandate on fossil fuels

Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune wore an expression of indignation as he articulated a post-election message for Sierra Club’s 2.4 million members: Acknowledge the pain and alienation...

DATE: Nov. 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Elk poacher from Denver is fined $11,000

A poacher from Denver has been fined more than $11,000 after a tip led to his arrest for killing a trophy-quality bull elk in northwest Colorado last year. Denver resident Agapito Alarid II, 42,...

DATE: Nov. 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Centuries of reckoning at Standing Rock

In his farewell address to Congress in 1796, George Washington predicted that the flaws embedded in federalism, as it was set up in the U.S. Constitution, would eventually translate into...

DATE: Nov. 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tax on carbon pollution faces surprising opposition

Court Olson spent about 50 hours last summer and fall approaching hundreds of strangers at suburban Seattle bus stops and farmers markets to talk about climate change. Olson was campaigning for a...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

A biologist turns her sights on climate and the elusive huckleberry

The current debate over removing certain grizzly bear populations from endangered species protection often strays into arguments over hunting, but grizzlies might have less to fear from hunters...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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