Colorado News
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Damage inside Glen Canyon Dam could mean problems with the "river outlet works," a set of small tubes near the bottom of the dam that were originally intended to release excess water when the reservoir is nearing full capacity. The dam allows water to pass through to the Colorado River and Grand Canyon.
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Doctors and clinic leaders say there'll be a scramble across the Southwest and West for abortion care, including to Colorado. The Arizona Supreme Court said this week officials may enforce an 1864 law criminalizing abortion except when a woman's life is at stake.
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The popularity of mocktails is soaring, especially among young adults. Two Northern Colorado mixologists are tapping into this market to create spaces for people to explore sobriety.
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Fort Collins City Council recently approved a measure allowing meeting locations to be moved, or for meetings to be made remote entirely, to deal with things like weather, emergencies, or public disruptions. Consolidation in the Poudre School Distric was also discussed.
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The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of bus surveillance video. Jessica Vestal says she suspects the kind of abuse that went undetected against her son is also happening to other children who, like him, can't speak and report what happened to them.
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Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled the results of a survey they use to help decide the fate of dozens of bills competing against each other for state funding. Thanks to a recent lawsuit, there's something different about it this year. For the first time since the survey was introduced to the Capitol in 2019, lawmakers’ votes aren’t being kept secret.
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Sandra Fish, a veteran reporter with The Colorado Sun, was kicked out of the Republican Party’s state assembly in Pueblo recently. Fish was given a press pass when she entered the event but was later escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy. State GOP party chair Dave Williams said Fish was kicked out because he believes her reporting is "unfair." The Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman joined KUNC's Michael Lyle Jr. to discuss the aftermath of this story.
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The Ladera mixed-use development annexation will not be stalled after a vote in Timnath overwhelmingly rejected a measure about it last Tuesday.
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Politicians and news outlets have expressed outrage over the expulsion of a Colorado politics reporter from a Republican gathering over the weekend. Sandra Fish, a reporter for the Colorado Sun, was told Saturday that the state party chairman believed her reporting was "very unfair."
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Libertarian activist and businessman Jon Caldara has filed a ballot initiative to repeal Senate Bill 157, which allows lawmakers to have more conversations in private.
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During the pandemic, teens across Colorado reported alarming levels of depression, anxiety and thoughts of self-harm. Now, new numbers out of Summit County show that young people are starting to feel a lot better.
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Second-home owners fear losing their foothold in the mountain community amid rules aimed at balancing the tourism economy with a need for more workforce housing.