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Plan to drill, frack under Aurora Reservoir postponed

Updated 2 days ago

Following five days of public comment and deliberation, the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission voted to postpone indefinitely the next well pad application in...

Colorado waste companies partner for one-stop collection service

Updated 3 days ago

Three of the state’s largest solid waste companies have partnered to create a new one-stop solution for segmented waste collection along the Front Range. Earlier...

Popular Lakewood park set for more than a decade of improvements

Updated 4 days ago

The second-largest park in Lakewood will remain in the forefront of the city’s renovation and conservation planning for the next decade — if not longer....

Audit finds major gaps in Colorado’s oil and gas reporting, enforcement

Updated 5 days ago

The agencies responsible for regulating Colorado’s oil and gas industry are underperforming when it comes to reporting and enforcement and they also failed to collect...

Brick by brick: Denver museum exhibit features larger than life Lego sculptures

Updated 1 week ago

Colorado Parks and Wildlife release of orphaned bear cubs into the wild ‘a big win’

Updated 1 week ago

Colorado Parks and Wildlife release of orphaned bear cubs into the wild ‘a big win’

Updated 1 week ago

51 acres of private Colorado inholdings secured by land trust in two popular wildernesses

Updated 1 week ago

After Colorado reintroduction, wild turkeys are a common urban encounter

Updated 2 weeks ago

Colorado regulators target oil and gas emissions anew

Updated 2 weeks ago

Colowyo coal mine near Craig lays off 133 workers as mine closes

Updated 2 weeks ago

EPA takes joint control of gasoline spill cleanup on Southern Ute land

Updated 3 weeks ago

Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine

Updated 3 weeks ago

Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine

Updated 3 weeks ago

Researchers in Colorado using cutting-edge tech to track the continent’s most endangered mammal

Updated 3 weeks ago

LAMAR — Hours after being released into a prairie dog town on the vast Southern Plains Land Trust, a game camera picked up on one...

Denver opens ’embodied carbon’ pilot program

Updated 3 weeks ago

Denver has begun accepting applications for an incentive program that offers funding and technical support to reduce the “carbon footprint” of building materials in large...

Colorado rolls out plan to supercharge clean-energy jobs boom

Updated 3 weeks ago

A new state analysis released Tuesday warns that Colorado will face significant shortages of skilled trades workers, threatening the state’s ability to meet Gov. Jared...

Cotton in CO? Southeast farmers test if crop has potential to take hold

Updated 4 weeks ago

BENT COUNTY — It’s easy to spot Caleb Wertz’s fields along the farmland east of Las Animas. About half of the Wertz family’s land is...

Can Colorado reinvent its uranium legacy?

Updated 4 weeks ago

Colorado River crisis deepens as 7 states miss deadline for water management plan

Updated 1 month ago

Colorado, Xcel, petition to delay Comanche coal-fired generating unit shutdown

Updated 1 month ago

This may be the best time ever to visit national parks | Vince Bzdek

Updated 1 month ago

Denver Parks & Recreation meets goal of 4,500 new trees planted in 2025

Updated 1 month ago

Another translocated wolf dies in Colorado, bringing total to 12

Updated 1 month ago

Trump taps ex-N.M. congressman to head BLM

Updated 1 month ago

New simplified Xcel time-of-use charges take effect Saturday

Updated 1 month ago

Nebraska says Colorado is stealing its water

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado responds to Nebraska’s ‘unserious’ Supreme Court lawsuit over water diversion

Updated 2 months ago

Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo

Updated 2 months ago

Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E...

The greatest aspen drive of all time | Vince Bzdek

Updated 2 months ago

We take a break from our regularly scheduled programming of shutdowns, violence and vitriol this week to take you on a Jeep ride through the...

The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range

Updated 3 months ago

A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — became the...

Ted Cooke reflects on turmoil over his nomination to Bureau of Reclamation

Updated 3 months ago

Ted Cooke, the former nominee for commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, called the decision to scuttle his nomination “feckless.” President Donald Trump had nominated...