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Mountain West lawmakers eye new funding for wildlife crossings
19+ hour, 13+ min ago (412+ words) Reading Time: 2 minutes, 16 seconds In Colorado, a wildlife bridge that spans six highway lanes opened in December and is now the largest in North America. In Idaho, deer and elk are already using the state's first highway overpass built for…...
Half of staff at Boulder's NOAA Global Monitoring Lab face furloughs as funding freeze drags on
19+ hour, 20+ min ago (151+ words) Reading Time: 0 minutes, 51 seconds About half of the staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Monitoring Lab in Boulder will be furloughed in May if federal funding is not released. Abdalati said that the federal government typically funds…...
Two early morning fires burning in Northern Colorado force evacuations
1+ day, 42+ min ago (143+ words) Crews are battling two fires in Northern Colorado on Wednesday morning. Mandatory evacuations are in place for the Berthoud area along County Road 31, south of Carter Lake, in the Blue Mountain and Spring Valley area. Nicknamed the Cougar Run Fire,…...
Colorado River supply forecast melts after March heat wave
20+ hour, 34+ min ago (388+ words) Last month's record breaking heat across the Mountain West led to the worst snowpack on record in Colorado and Utah, along with a significantly downgraded forecast for the upcoming supply of Colorado River water. Cody Moser with the federal Colorado…...
A new documentary examines how one Colorado mountain town navigates neighborly disagreements
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (235+ words) Creede is a small, former silver mining town in the heart of a canyon in the San Juan mountains. It has about 300 full-time residents. Just about everywhere you look, you see reminders of the area's mining heritage " including the abandoned…...
Colorado legislature will try again to lower homeowners insurance rates
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (506+ words) Reading Time: 2 minutes, 24 seconds This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr. org. After a failed effort last session, Colorado lawmakers are making another attempt at bringing down the cost of…...
Almost 14, 000 Colorado kids are on the waitlist for subsidized child care with program on the brink of collapse
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (334+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 19 seconds After two of Chelsea Breese's kids lost their father in November, her daughter, then age 7, began asking her the same question many mornings: "Is my dad alive?" Her 5-year-old son still hasn't stopped sleeping in her…...
Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples receive artifacts from University of Denver Museum of Anthropology
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (267+ words) The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology recently returned artifacts to the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. A federal law called the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires institutions receiving federal funds to return sacred and culturally significant Indigenous…...
Geopolitics have Colorado biz leaders spooked, CU survey finds
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (230+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 32 seconds A recent confidence survey of Colorado business leaders paints a gloomy economic picture for the second quarter of 2026. Many of the concerns " global instability; the war in Iran's impact on energy prices; tariffs and immigration, for…...
Will Colorado's drought lead to higher conflicts between humans and bears this spring?
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1390+ words) Colorado's black bears are beginning to stir with the first signs of spring. While the spring wake-up for bears comes right on schedule, this winter's historically low snowpack, record high temperatures and deepening drought conditions could impact bear behavior in…...