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The price for a one-day lift ticket for skiers and snowboarders has grown by hundreds of dollars in recent years. Now a group of skiers has filed a class-action lawsuit that compares ski resort companies to a cartel – arguing that they’ve been collaborating to artificially raise the cost of a day on the slopes.
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Courtesy Butterfly PavilionOver the past few years, a group of zoos and aquariums have teamed up for an unusual rescue project: They work together to save and grow threatened coral from an underwater zone off the coast of Florida. A marine biologist in Colorado is leading an important part of that preservation work, even though she’s hundreds of miles from the ocean. -
Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force Central Command Public AffairsA tiny nuclear reactor could be a reality soon at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora. The Pentagon has proposed installing a “microreactor” there to power the base. We talk with an expert on nuclear materials to learn more about how a microreactor would work, and whether it’s a safety concern.
Colorado News
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Utah's Cultural Site Stewardship program gives volunteers the opportunity to protect Utah's most special places, like historic sites and cultural resources, by monitoring them for damage. -
Students at hundreds of schools across Colorado walked out of class around noon Friday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the agency leading it. -
It’s one of the great film festivals, and unlike most has never taken the celebrity path that turns many festivals into big publicity bashes.
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Colorado is among states where rural residents face long potential drive times to maternity care. -
The head of the Colorado County Clerks Association says he’s confident the state will have safe and secure elections despite federal “chaos.” -
Children’s Hospital Colorado is reporting increasing e-bike and e-scooter related injuries among kids. At a recent news conference, hospital staff said there was an 84% jump in e-scooter injuries from 2024 to 2025. E-bike injuries went up 184% over the same time.
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States that share the Colorado River have been meeting behind closed doors. But as they’ve failed to forge a deal for the river’s future, more are questioning the negotiation process itself. -
The federal agency's action — published Tuesday — contends that its decision is intended to "encourage energy production" in the midst of Trump's self-declared national energy emergency. -
Mountain West texters are more likely to bring up self-harm in crisis conversations than Americans at large. -
A U.S. representative calls for an investigation into the site that would house Open AI. -
From Spokane, Wash. to Pueblo County, Colo., fast-moving fires have again wreaked havoc in neighborhoods this summer. Now, a network of scientists, fire professionals and other experts have joined forces to seek research-based solutions to the problem. -
So-called process based restoration (PBR) has a number of ecological benefits. But it can make ecosystems more resilient to wildfires when they come, and better able to recover in their wake.
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