18+ hour, 7+ min ago  (240+ words) A pilot supporting firefighting efforts with the Gold Mountain fire died in a plane crash on Sunday, according to the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office. At 5:17 p.m. Sunday, regional dispatch received a call about an aircraft down in the Silver Jack…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1020+ words) ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s governor said on June 29 that state officials could pursue billions of dollars in civil damages after revelations that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents repeatedly allowed shipments of fentanyl to flow into drug-plagued communities as investigators sought…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (176+ words) Amanda Gonzalez is leading Jessie Danielson in the Democratic primary for Secretary of State, based on early returns posted after polls closed Tuesday night. As of 7:20 p.m., Gonzalez had 63.61% of the vote, while Danielson had 36.39%. Gonzalez, an election attorney, currently serves…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1081+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Nebraska’s lawsuit against Colorado over the Perkins County canal, a move that advances a legal dispute likely to take years to resolve. The proposed Perkins County canal would run through land owned…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (603+ words) U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday endorsed congressional candidate Melat Kiros, one of two Democrats challenging 15-term U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s June primary. Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democrats, called the 29-year-old Kiros “exactly the kind of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1033+ words) Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one found in a dog in New Mexico, outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation’s cattle…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (993+ words) Two of the seven Colorado River negotiators weighed in Friday on the 10‑year management framework unveiled a day earlier by Scott Cameron of the Bureau of Reclamation. With the seven states along the Colorado River failing to reach an agreement,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1044+ words) The Department of the Interior is moving forward with a 10‑year framework for managing the Colorado River after 2026, outlining a plan to issue new operating guidelines every two years as the seven basin states remain unable to reach an agreement....

2+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (537+ words) Colorado Politics Strengthening Colorado’s mental-health workforce | GUEST COLUMN By Kyle Brown and Lindsay Gilchrist More than 1.2 million Coloradans live with a diagnosed mental health condition, and in 2023, one in five people seeking care were unable to get the treatment they…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1024+ words) ALBUQUERQUE — From Mexican American and Chicano barrios in the American Southwest to the halls of the Smithsonian on the National Mall and even the streets of Japan, lowrider culture has become part of mainstream car culture around the globe. The…...