Associated Press

Despite the reluctance from farmers and communities reliant on farming, there's a growing sense that fallowing needs to be part of efforts to conserve the region's water.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful "forever chemicals" in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable. But experts say removing them will cost billions, a burden that will fall hardest on small communities with few resources.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands. Haaland issued an order Friday for government workers to tap into Indigenous knowledge in their efforts to conserve bison.

Election deniers who were unable to succeed at the polls last year have targeted the one political post that depends entirely on the most hard-core of Republican voters — state party chair. The focus is now on Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan and elsewhere.

The Weld County District Attorney's office dismissed a second-degree felony assault charge, the most serious charge against a Colorado police officer who locked a woman in a parked police car that was hit by a freight train, leaving her with serious injuries.

Patti Zhou is an 11-year-old snowboarder from Beijing who could be the next big thing in the halfpipe and slopestyle. She's making her Dew Tour debut in Copper Mountain, Colorado, this weekend.

At a vigil for Elias Armstrong on Thursday, Thomas Armstrong said a police detective told the family that the people in the stolen car fired one or two shots while the car's owner fired 15 rounds, "emptying his clip." Surveillance video obtained by The Denver Gazette show the Feb. 5 shootout lasted a matter of seconds, with the man quickly running to the car after finding it.

A judge has ruled there is enough evidence for a trial against the person accused of killing five people and wounding over a dozen others at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year. The Thursday ruling sends Anderson Lee Aldrich to trial on dozens of murder and hate crime charges.

fficials at the ABQ BioPark Zoo, where the 4-month-old cub has been receiving care, told the Albuquerque Journal that he was transferred to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.

A spokesperson for the Denver District Attorney's Office says it doesn't believe it can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in the Feb. 5 shooting, an ethical standard it must meet in order to file charges. Police have said the owner of the stolen car used an app to track and find his vehicle and, when he approached it, there was an "exchange of gunfire."