Joe Wertz

Mysterious monolith has northern Colorado pointing, theorizing and buzzing

No one knows how it got there, and who — or what — put it there

How a Colorado farmer protected his business by turning to the beer industry

Preparing for water shortages has made his business hardier and better

Wildlife officers confirm Colorado’s first wolf attack since predators were reintroduced

Agents found tooth marks, tracks and other evidence consistent with wolf depredation

Recent storms have pushed Colorado’s snowpack above ‘normal’

A wave of late-winter storms has pushed snow accumulation in all of Colorado’s major water-storage basins above normal levels for the first time this year, data show. Statewide, snowpack – w...

Climate change is erasing decades of air quality improvements. It’s also making Colorado’s air worse

Climate change is fueling environmental conditions that are worsening air quality across Colorado and other Western states, new data shows. The data, recently released by the nonprofit First...

Colorado snowpack has rebounded, but it’s too early to promise a water win for rivers and reservoirs

Colorado's winter got off to a slow start, but snowpack levels have finally started to rebound to normal levels across the state. Statewide, snow accumulation across Colorado is about 98% of...

Many Colorado HOAs have rules that make homes more vulnerable to wildfires. New legislation could block those

Colorado lawmakers on Friday advanced new legislation that would make it easier to build or upgrade homes to harden them against wildfires. The legislation would void language in existing ho...

Nation and region’s climate worsening, but can still be improved, says new federal assessment

Dangerously hot and dry conditions in Colorado and other Southwestern states fueled by rising global temperatures are endangering the health of residents, reducing snowpack and water supplie...

Strange lights in the sky reported by pilots around eastern Colorado

Pilots on different routes that crossed the state Thursday night reported seeing strange lights in the sky above eastern Colorado, audio recordings of air traffic communications show. One pi...