Shopping News / Articles
This wealthy Colorado community is fighting wildfires with robo-mowers and 1, 000 sensors on trees
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (905+ words) CORDILLERA " The rugged, pine-and-sage covered mountains framing $5 million homes in this wealthy community have already lost their snow, and the thick underbrush crackles underfoot. Trevor Broersma and Jim Rabun know these 7, 500 vulnerable acres will need every tool they can assemble…...
Denver's lawn-watering costs are going up for the drought. Here's how much.
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (541+ words) Warning that "hopes for a Miracle May snowstorm are dimming," Denver Water on Wednesday locked in lawn watering surcharges for the 2026 season that will cost the average "non-conserver" city resident $45 extra this year." The average customer in the "non-conserver" category…...
With cuts coming to Proposition 123, Colorado's budget crisis is about to make its housing crisis worse
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (1065+ words) After years of pumping taxpayer money into affordable housing at the direction of voters, Colorado lawmakers are preparing to gut a program that developers say has become fundamental to how low-income rental housing gets built in the state. Colorado's state…...
Colorado lost jobs and saw its labor force decline last year
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (845+ words) The number of working-age Coloradans in the labor force shrunk last year, and instead of adding jobs, the state lost 11, 700 of them, according to revised data released Wednesday by the state Department of Labor and Employment. It is the first…...
Opinion: Colorado lawmakers had a chance to protect homes from wildfires, but turned it down
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (316+ words) The Colorado Sun Last month, Colorado lawmakers were handed a simple, science-backed opportunity: shift a fraction of wildfire funding toward the one strategy most consistently shown to protect homes: home hardening and defensible space grants. However, they said no to…...
Lakewood voters strike down pro-density zoning as repeal campaign dominates
17+ hour, 53+ min ago (1153+ words) Lakewood voters decisively repealed the city's new zoning laws on Tuesday night, striking down a change that would have allowed more duplexes, triplexes and other multi-unit housing across the city's suburban neighborhoods. As of 10 p. m. , the repeal effort was crushing the…...
Wildfire burning in northern Colorado prompts evacuations near Carter Lake
23+ hour, 20+ min ago (208+ words) A wildfire that sparked in Larimer County in northern Colorado on Wednesday has prompted an evacuation notice for people living near Carter Lake." The Cougar Run fire has grown to roughly 10 acres on state land, according to the Larimer County…...
Nexstar asks states, including Colorado, for $150 M bond to cover damages from order slowing merger with Tegna
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (608+ words) Allowing the $6. 2 billion tie up of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. to proceed is bad for competition and bad for local journalism, lawyers for eight states and Direc TV argued in court Tuesday, as they asked for an antitrust…...
Legislature will try again to lower homeowners insurance rates by funding hail-resistant roofs
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (469+ words) Colorado lawmakers want to impose a per-policy fee on home insurance providers to raise $20 million a year for a program that would provide grants to homeowners to protect their properties against hail. The hope is that the program will protect…...
Colorado's rural teacher pipeline programs will likely skirt funding cuts in state budget
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (792+ words) The search for educators in rural Colorado has become so desperate in some districts that superintendents are staffing classrooms with adults still learning how to teach or relying on online learning programs to fill in the gaps when administrators simply…...
Shopping
Please enter a search for detailed shopping results.