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As wildfires threaten more communities across the West, new research suggests some basic changes to how homes are built could make them safer without significantly increasing the price tag.
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Courtesy photoThe seven states in the Colorado River Basin are fighting a kind of Cold War over how to divvy up a shrinking water supply. And a new documentary shows just how personal the stakes can be for tribes, ranchers and others who live in the region. -
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The two traversed from red to blue districts as Neguse works to flip seats in Colorado. -
An Egyptian man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last spring. -
The Justice Department says its monitors will remain outside and at least 100 feet from voting centers on Election Day. -
Communities and officials are still assessing the damage ahead of another storm in the forecast for this weekend in southwestern Colorado -
Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a weekend hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains. The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office said late Wednesday that search and rescue volunteers found the bodies of Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon earlier in the day in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, where heavy snow fell last weekend. -
“I will absolutely open this up again because none of it sounds fair,” Marx said during a virtual interview organized by FoxTalk.
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One ski area was already factoring in higher fuel costs because it started transitioning its fleet of groomers and vehicles to a lower-emission source. -
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Farmland across the West may be doing more than growing crops. It could also help stop wildfires in their tracks. -
These home visiting programs just saw an influx of federal money that could mean expanding to more families. -
They bought a triplex to have a community without having to share a kitchen: “We are punks, but we're also adults, and we need to have some personal space.” -
Atrazine contamination is most widespread in the Midwest, but affected watersheds extend into Colorado and New Mexico.
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