A suspected deadly mountain lion attack on New Year's Day that killed a woman hiking alone was preceded by another harrowing encounter in the same area. A man says he was rushed by a mountain lion along the same northern Colorado trail in November but fought it off with a stick.

The Trump administration spent much of the year rolling back environmental regulations, stripping protections for public lands, and working to limit the development of green energy while bolstering fossil fuels.

For decades, communities in southeastern Colorado have been waiting to get clean drinking water through the Arkansas Valley Conduit.

The money, which is far more than what state officials had been anticipating to get, will come from congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for grant funding said the NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, or vaccines.

The Upper Arkansas Basin in the central part of the state is currently the driest, with about 49% of the normal snowpack.

The money comes from a fund created as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It will help Colorado improve rural health care across the state.

Officials say firefighters are battling a large blaze tearing through a three-story apartment complex under construction in Denver.

Authorities are investigating a suspected fatal mountain lion attack after hikers found an unresponsive woman on a trail near Glen Haven.

Nearly 800 people in the state are hospitalized with influenza.