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Alyssa’s Act requires mental health training for youth sports coaches and more guidance for families after a suspected concussion.
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Kyle McKinnon/KUNCAhead of the midterms, Boulder County is training a new kind of poll worker. These are trusted friends and neighbors who answer questions and dispel misinformation about how voting in Colorado works. -
Courtesy Wolf and Wren PressA sympathy card for a grieving dog owner. A Mother’s Day card for someone who’s been like a mom to you. And an old-fashioned printing press. Those are some of the key ingredients to success for Wolf & Wren Press in Longmont. We talked with the cofounders about how they created their business.
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Yellowstone National Park and a Colorado company called Tallgrass have launched a $105 million conservation fund for the park. Announced Monday, officials said it is the largest private gift in the park's history. -
The City of Fort Collins is pulling permit application for the bigger reservoir due to doubts of Army Corps approval, and will pivot and sign onto Northern Water’s troubled Glade project. -
Four of the five Summit County ski resorts started up their snowguns late last week. -
The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved Colorado’s request for funding to support businesses harmed by a wildfire that grew to over 100,000 acres in southern Colorado this summer. -
The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance. -
Five years after a developer then called McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. bought Foothills mall out of foreclosure and 3½ years after it announced an ambitious plan to turn the indoor mall into open-air retail and adding housing, office space and walkable outdoor spaces, the company now called Realberry submitted its design concept Thursday to Fort Collins city planners — with two notable changes.
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The route traverses across regions of Colorado that touch public lands and are slightly off the beaten path -
The reorganization would have included moving the agency's headquarters to Salt Lake City and closing nearly two dozen research facilities. Congress may later choose not to extend the restrictions. -
Twenty firefighters have died so far this season, and hundreds of homes have been destroyed across the West. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service started allowing hunting this fall at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge as part of a Trump administration push to expand hunting and fishing on public lands. -
African antelope brought to New Mexico decades ago for hunting could eventually spread across much more of the West as climate change brings warmer winters, according to new research. -
New satellite observations show that some global river models struggle to account for dams, reservoirs and other human influences, raising questions about their reliability for water planning.
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