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Created: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:00:07 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Street closures were put into place Saturday as a way of providing some relief to city parks that are getting heavy use from urban dwellers enduring a stay-at-home order that has been extended until at least April 30.
Created: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:12:15 +0000
Author: The Associated Press
GRAND JUNCTION) -- The temporary head of the federal Bureau of Land Management is expected to continue overseeing the agency for another month.
Read more: Temporary Bureau of Land Management director to continue through May 5
Created: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:00:08 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
At least temporarily, air pollution that hurts human lungs has decreased sharply along Colorado's Front Range as the novel coronavirus spreads.
Created: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:51:20 +0000
Author: Ellen Knickmeyer, Tom Krisher
The Trump administration rolled back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards Tuesday, raising the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come and gutting one of the United States' biggest efforts against climate change.
Read more: Trump rollback of mileage standards guts climate change push
Created: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:00:39 +0000
Author: John Aguilar, Amy Brothers
The struggle against one of the worst pandemics in world history -- the Spanish flu — could yield lessons for today's battle against the deadly and still spreading coronavirus.
Read more: Not Colorado’s first pandemic: What we can learn from the Spanish flu
Created: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:00:34 +0000
Author: John Aguilar, John Meyer
With almost all schools, entertainment venues and some workplaces now closed in Colorado, restless residents are heading to one of the few places they can still go: the great outdoors.
Read more: Colorado parks and trails fill up as coronavirus leads to cabin fever
Created: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:00:56 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Policy leaders and politicians are largely giving Gov. Jared Polis high marks for his response so far to COVID-19 as the virus-borne disease continues its relentless march across Colorado, prompting long-term closures of businesses and cancellations of events that will have devastating impacts on workers' livelihoods and abilities to support their families for months to come.
Read more: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ handling of coronavirus crisis earns mostly praise so far
Created: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:45:10 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
State energy regulators on Thursday said they will seek to fine a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. $18.25 million in connection to the deadly explosion at a home in Firestone nearly three years ago that a federal probe determined was caused by natural gas leaking from a severed underground pipe.
Read more: $18 million fine proposed in fatal Firestone home explosion
Created: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:00:23 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
Colorado's mountain snow is measuring slightly higher than normal for this time of year, a vulnerable moment for cities and food growers ahead of spring, boosting confidence that water for crops, cattle and a growing population will be adequate.
Read more: Colorado mountain snowpack in “good spot” for water supply heading into spring
Created: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 23:35:57 +0000
Author: RJ Sangosti
Denver Parks & Recreation held its annual Bison Auction at Genesee Bison Ranch on March 6, 2020. According to a press release from Denver Parks & Recreation, this year's sale of thirty-five young bison raised $40,050. The annual auction keeps the herd's population size at a healthy level. The herds are descended from the last wild bison in North America and were originally established at Denver’s City Park by the Denver Zoo and the City of Denver. The herd was moved to Genesee Park in 1914 and expanded to Daniels Park in 1938.
Read more: PHOTOS: Annual bison auction raises $40K for conservation program