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Colorado will remove same-sex marriage ban from state constitution

The phrase that said ‘only a union of one man and one woman’ was valid was added to the Colorado Constitution by voters in 2006

DATE: Nov 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Effort to protect abortion in Colorado Constitution passes

Measure was one of several nationwide after the fall of Roe v. Wade

DATE: Nov 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado wildlife managers give up on finding fifth wolf pup

CPW called off capture operation because temperatures are dropping

DATE: Oct 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

A third wolf released in Colorado’s reintroduction plan is dead, CPW says

Wolf’s collar sent a ‘mortality signal’ this week and wildlife biologist officials confirmed its death

DATE: Sep 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Captured wolf dies, pack relocated after feeding on livestock in northern Colorado

CPW broke its silence after announcing two weeks ago it would capture the Copper Creek pack

DATE: Sep 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tiny, endangered toads transplanted to Colorado pond successfully breed after 7 years

Biologists are thrilled at discovery of Boreal tadpoles in a bog in the mountains

DATE: Aug 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Federal land managers are planning Colorado’s next wild horse roundup, ignoring pleas to stop using a helicopter

The BLM’s management plan for the Little Book Cliffs near Palisade calls for removing about 100 horses with a helicopter roundup

DATE: May 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado won’t legalize raw milk this year after proposal spoils in legislature

State has some of the strictest raw milk laws in the West

DATE: Apr 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Legislators defend reporter who was kicked out of GOP state assembly

Sun editor: ‘It’s a sad day when politicians get to decide who can and cannot report for the American people’

DATE: Apr 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

An old-fashioned newspaper war inspired by modern politics is raging in Westcliffe and dividing readers

While many Colorado communities are losing their local newspapers, Custer County readers are divided between a traditional, 100-year-old paper and a right-wing newcomer

DATE: Oct 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Entire Western Colorado wild horse herd removed from range in helicopter roundup

All 122 horses in the West Douglas area were captured in the roundup, with four euthanized and the rest headed to holding pens in Cañon City

DATE: Sep 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado has 100s more wild horses than the feds say it should. So volunteers are hitting them with fertility darts

The long-term goal is to control the mustang population on the state’s four herd-management areas with fertility control

DATE: Jul 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News