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San Miguel County officials support Southwest Colorado solar plant plan

San Miguel County commissioners recently signed a letter of support for the 30-megawatt power plant. Ute Peak Solar and Standard…

Former nuclear weapons site opens to public

Deer cross a road stripped of its asphalt at the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant in 2005 near Golden.…

Wyoming guide dead after bear attack; Florida hunter hurt

The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports the body of 37-year-old Mark Uptain was found Saturday. Teton County spokesman Billy…

Capitol committee inches toward compromise on how to handle harassment complaints

sides at odds over makeup of disciplinary panel

Officials shed little light on closure of solar observatory

The entrance to Sunspot Observatory is blocked near Alamogordo, N.M., Friday. An observatory in the mountains of southern New Mexico…

Tax incentive proposal aims to draw film crews to Las Cruces

Just over 1 percent of film productions that took place in the state from 2002 to 2017 occurred in Las…

Pot seizures on Colorado public land nearly doubled in 2017

The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area reports nearly 81,000 plants were destroyed – up from 45,000 in 2016.…

How do you make the classroom LGBTQ-inclusive?

Colorado teachers went to summer school to find out

Niece: Family won’t take in Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper

Elizabeth Smart arrives for a news conference Thursday in Salt Lake City. Smart says it appears there is no viable,…

Bat tested positive for rabies at Grand Canyon

Park officials said Friday that visitors have reported an uptick in bats along the Colorado River. No one is known…

New Mexico candidates address concerns of racial inequality

Congressman Steve Pearce speaks at a gubernatorial candidate forum organized by the NAACP and an associated sorority in Albuquerque on…

North-central Colorado wildfire nearly doubles in size

The fire between Steamboat Springs and Kremmling in the Routt National Forest has burned nearly 15 square miles. It started…

Report: Mexican wolves found dead in Arizona and in New Mexico

The Arizona Game and Fish Department said in a news release Friday that both animals were found dead in August,…

Colorado initiatives draw big bucks

interests have kicked in more than $20M

Hundreds of firefighters to head to Utah to fight wildfire

Gov. Gary Herbert, who spoke at the fairgrounds in Spanish Fork after getting a briefing from fire officials, said the…

Belgian tourist found dead at White Sands National Monument

Monument officials said in a statement Thursday the man was found Wednesday unresponsive about a half-mile from the Alkali Flat…

Ex-Navajo Nation chapter employee pleads no contest to fraud

Tribal authorities say Berniece Pinto-Denetdeal used her position to forge signatures of other chapter officials to issue checks to herself…

Wyoming tomato farmer pleads guilty to growing marijuana

Stewart Doty of Big Piney faces about two years in prison when he is sentenced in November. He also must…

Libertarian Senate candidate discloses cannabis investments

Former Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks to reporters about his decision to join the U.S. Senate race in New…

$1.5M settlement for Muslim workers fired in prayer dispute

Dawn approaches over the meat processing plant owned and run by Cargill Meat Solutions, in Fort Morgan, a small town…

Colorado agency to reopen gun range where fire was started

The agency announced in a news release Thursday that the Basalt State Wildlife Area shooting range will reopen to the…