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Southwest Colorado nonprofits raise $805,672 in big Colorado Gives Day

10 Southwest Colorado nonprofits benefit

DATE: Dec 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Community

Prosecutor, attorney general urge Gov. Polis to ignore requests to aid Tina Peters

A request from the Trump administration to transfer former Republican Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from state to federal custody is opposed by state officials, including the Republican dist...

DATE: Nov 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado Avalanche Information Center begins forecasts for 2025-26 season

CAIC updates help backcountry travelers avoid risk

DATE: Nov 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies loses federal grants over mysterious ‘DEI’ accusations

Nonprofit based at Barr Lake lost $1.4M budgeted to support cooperative research with federal agencies, and to match state and private grants

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pushback by counties on solar projects is challenging climate goals, Colorado officials say

Cities, counties say report by the Colorado Energy Office was tailored to aid the governor in dictating solar siting rules, much as he has done around housing

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

1 in 3 new cars sold in Colorado last quarter were electric as buyers chased expiring tax credits

Consumers scrambled to buy before a $7,500 federal credit expired on Sept. 30

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado River Program’s new director ‘cautiously hopeful’ about interstate negotiations

Celene Hawkins practiced in tribal nation projects, conservation efforts

DATE: Aug 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Polis declares statewide disaster emergency due to critical fire weather conditions, fires burning across Western Slope

As yet another large wildfire grows on the Western Slope, Gov. Jared Polis has declared a disaster emergency statewide and authorized the use of the National Guard. The Crosho Fire, which sp...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado AG Weiser sues Mesa County sheriff’s deputy over ‘illegal coordination’ with ICE

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Tuesday that he had taken legal action against a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy over an alleged violation of state laws prohibiting coordination betw...

DATE: Jul 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Phil Weiser undeterred by polling gap in governor’s race

Attorney general says he’ll keep fighting Trump-era overreach despite trailing Bennet

DATE: Jul 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Southern Ute tribal member elected to chair Colorado water policy board in historic first

Lorelei Cloud tapped as board’s first-ever Indigenous chairperson

DATE: May 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say

Study by the conservative Common Sense Institute pegs everything from lost coal jobs to higher utility bills on state regulations

DATE: May 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News