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New Mexico officials urge employers to require vaccinations

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s Democratic governor and dozens of other elected officials are urging the state’s business community to require that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or altern...

DATE: Aug 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Albuquerque matches record number of homicides this year

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With more than four months remaining, Albuquerque has already matched a record number of homicides this year within the city limits.

DATE: Aug 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Colorado governor plans disaster declaration after mudslides

DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Monday he was planning to issue a state disaster declaration and it could be “a few days to a few weeks” before a canyon in the western part of the s...

DATE: Aug 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm dies at 85

DENVER — Former Colorado Democratic Gov. Richard “Dick” Lamm, who successfully fought to stop the 1976 Winter Olympics from being held in Colorado even though they had been awarded to the st...

DATE: Jul 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Star-crossed tight end Jake Butt retires from NFL

Jake Butt, the once-promising tight end whose football career was waylaid by six knee operations, announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday, saying he could no longer hide the fact that he’d lost his passion for the game he loves.

DATE: Jul 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Coalition seeks relisting of gray wolves in West

BOISE, Idaho — Wildlife advocates on Thursday petitioned federal officials to restore federal protections for gray wolves throughout the U.S. West after Idaho and Montana passed laws intende...

DATE: Jul 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mudslides force 29 to spend night in highway tunnel

More than 100 stranded by storm

DATE: Jul 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Third person found dead after Colorado flooding, mudslides

RUSTIC – Authorities have recovered the body of a third person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire. One person is st...

DATE: Jul 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Interior secretary visits new BLM headquarters in Grand Junction

GRAND JUNCTION – Interior Secretary Deb Haaland paid her first visit Friday to the new Colorado headquarters of her department’s Bureau of Land Management after its relocation from the natio...

DATE: Jul 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor closely monitoring COVID-19 numbers

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and top health officials are closely monitoring the increase in COVID-19 cases. But there was no indication Thursday of whether official...

DATE: Jul 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico sees rise in COVID-19 cases

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is seeing a noticeable uptick in COVID-19 cases and vaccinations have slowed despite continued pressure by state health officials to get more people inoculated.

DATE: Jul 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Colorado’s 1st gray wolf pack since 1940s now has 6 pups

DENVER – Colorado's first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s has grown to include six pups. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Thursday that staff members spotted the pups living in a de...

DATE: Jul 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News