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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting.
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Colorado voters comb through a glut of ballot questions during election season. How did we get here?
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Courtesy of Robert Madden / Colorado State UniversityA new study by an archaeologist at Colorado State University looked at dice first used by Native American hunter-gatherers more than 12,000 years ago. The games were a way for tribes to connect with each other and trade goods, even without speaking the same language. -
Kathryn Scott/The Colorado SunWind or solar? A CU economist set out to determine which type of renewable energy is most beneficialAn economist at CU who studies energy recently set out to look at interesting question: Which type of renewable energy has the greatest benefit?
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Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ and its impact on the Colorado River. -
Candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties get most of the votes and the attention, but dozens of independent and third-party candidates will be running for offices up and down the ballot in Colorado this fall. -
Plenty of longtime educators and experts are skeptical about whether the tests are useful or even accurate. Listen to KUNC host Marty Lenz discuss this story and then read the entire article. -
Since her sentence was cut short, Peters has toured conspiracy conferences, stood with Trump in the Oval Office and drawn interest from a California elections office. -
Backers of the amendment, currently known as Initiative 302, gathered enough signatures to land on the ballot, the secretary of state’s office announced last week. -
Construction of the exterior shell of the Stanley Film Center in Estes Park is expected to wrap in December and the facility — a horror movie museum and events space — is expected to open at Estes Park’s iconic Stanley Hotel in early 2028.
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Nevada filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump Administration's new rules drastically cutting the state's access to the Colorado River. -
Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property. -
Colorado River plan orders cuts in the Lower Basin, while relying on voluntary conservation upstreamColorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming are not subject to mandatory reductions; instead, those states are setting up programs to voluntarily conserve water. -
The federal decision, which imposes steep cuts on California, Arizona and Nevada, can now be challenged in court. -
The federal government will cut back on the amount of water for Arizona, California and Nevada after years of negotiations. They will hit cities in the Phoenix and Tucson areas the hardest. -
Organizers hope to raise awareness of expanded police surveillance amid growing backlash against Automatic License Plate Readers.
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