State lawmakers propose plan after half of Colorado’s waters lost federal...
Colorado lawmakers are pursuing legislation to safeguard some of the state’s most fragile waterways from pollution after a U.S. Supreme Court decision rolled back federal protections. Democratic...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists propose 3 more questions in ballot-box battle over oil, gas...
Environmentalists and community activists have filed three statewide ballot proposals in a counter-move against the oil and gas industry’s attempts to sway public policy by putting a slew of questions...
View ArticleBat with species-devastating fungus discovered in Front Range community
A bat infected with a fungus that has killed millions of bats across the country was found in Longmont last month. Testing this month confirmed the little brown bat was infected with white-nose...
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Where does all the Colorado River water go? A huge amount goes to grow cattle...
More Colorado River water is used to grow a single crop than for drinking water, business needs and industrial uses combined across the seven-state river basin that’s home to more than 40 million...
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Family that used to farm Buc-ee’s land has a message about the effects of...
Colorado’s first Buc-ee’s is nothing short of a phenomenon. On March 18, the Texas-born travel center opened one of its largest locations in the nation in Johnstown with a 74,000-square-foot...
View ArticleOpinion: Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt,...
Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting … now. The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and the rules are simple. The object of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Video shows injured wolf muzzled and paraded through a bar....
It’s legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf’s mouth shut and...
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Opinion: As the Colorado River has shrunk, we’ve borne the burden. Now...
In recent days the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming submitted an alternative plan outlining the proposed operations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead after 2026. Woven throughout this...
View ArticleLegislators have a clear choice if they want to protect Colorado’s streams...
Last year, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court rolled back 50 years of clean water protections. Many of Colorado’s rivers, streams and wetlands now have no clean water protection. What is the state...
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Where Denver gardeners can find local plant sales this May
The last frost date for the Denver is May 4, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. Generally across the Front Range, you can count on closer to Mother’s Day weekend to begin warm-weather garden planting....
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