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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Beginning Friday, Colorado will differentiate between coronavirus deaths caused directly by COVID-19 and those in which the person had the disease, but didn’t die from it, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado National Guard’s 140th Wing will be conducting a second F-16 Fighting Falcon flyover Friday to salute health care workers on the front line of the battle against the coronavirus, a statement said Thursday.…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County Public Health will send cease-and-desist letters to two Calhan restaurants that opened Wednesday in defiance of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ order that dine-in service remain closed because of the coronavirus, officials said…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The coronavirus “very likely” came to Colorado weeks before it was first diagnosed here, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said at a news briefing Wednesday. How long ago the virus touched ground here isn’t yet known,…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five African penguins intended for a new exhibit arrived at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs on Friday, the zoo announced Saturday. Four of the penguins — named Safara, Alex, and their two sons,…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man who died while kayaking Monument Lake Monday was identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office Tuesday as 38-year-old James Arends. Arends was found by Monument authorities about 10 a.m., a spokesman with…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Developed recreation sites within the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Region will be temporarily closed to protect against the coronavirus and fire restrictions will be in place to lessen wildfire danger, an agency statement said…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Despite repeated warnings from elected state and health officials to avoid mountain travel, there is still an “alarming” number of people traveling to Colorado’s mountain communities in the wake of a global coronavirus pandemic, Gov.…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “This is not a vacation,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Friday in warning the state’s residents to take seriously the 2-day-old, stay-at-home order he issued in the face of a mounting coronavirus pandemic. The order,…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The state’s first coronavirus death — an 83-year-old woman who died Friday at a Colorado Springs hospital — may have exposed dozens of the most vulnerable to the flu-like disease at a west-side card tournament…