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Colorado county COVID vaccine workers harassed over holiday

DENVER – A Colorado county’s public health department took its three mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics off the streets after its staff members were harassed while providing inoculations ov...

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Forced medication approved for wildfire suspect, lawyers say

DENVER – A judge has approved the forced medication of a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a wildfire that burned 149 homes in Colorado in 2018, lawyers said Wednesday. The develop...

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Series to be based on Hillerman novels set on Navajo Nation

SANTA FE – Production of a six-episode television series based on crime novels by the late author Tony Hillerman is underway in New Mexico, the state Film office announced Tuesday. A psychol...

DATE: Aug 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Colorado mandates vaccine for health care workers by Oct. 31

DENVER – Health care workers at facilities including assisted living homes, nursing homes and hospitals in Colorado must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of October under a temporar...

DATE: Aug 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Woman who hid 26 kids behind false wall at day care guilty

COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado woman charged with hiding 26 children behind a false wall at her day care center was found guilty of child abuse and other charges Thursday. Carla Faith was co...

DATE: Aug 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Live round found next to bed of Colorado woman presumed dead

SALIDA – An unused .22-caliber round was found next to the bed of a Colorado woman who disappeared last year and whose husband is charged with killing her, and a tranquilizer gun and accesso...

DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. authorities warn against flying drones over national lab in New Mexico

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Drone pilots beware. Authorities at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over Los Alamos National Laboratory is off l...

DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Navajo Nation issues vaccine mandate for tribal workers

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – All Navajo Nation executive branch employees will need to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by the end of September or be required to submit to...

DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico farmers along Rio Grande face early water cutoff

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of farmers along central New Mexico's stretch of the Rio Grande face a second straight year of having their irrigation supplies cut off early.

DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Colorado U.S. Sen. Hickenlooper tests positive for COVID-19

DENVER – Colorado U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday that he has tested positive for a “breakthrough” case of COVID-19. The first-term Democrat issued a statement saying he teste...

DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico braces for end of federal unemployment bonuses

SANTA FE – State labor and workforce training officials are bracing for the end of a $300 weekly federal bonus in unemployment benefits that also bolstered income for the self-employed and ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

West Nile virus detected in Bernalillo County mosquitoes

ALBUQUERQUE – Health officials in New Mexico’s most populated area are warning residents to take precautions against mosquito bites. They announced Monday that mosquitoes carrying West Nil...

DATE: Aug 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico