Tag: Video
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BUSINESS | Actors Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl launch bread business
Actor Patrick Duffy and his partner, actress Linda Purl, launched Duffy’s Dough last week, a new business that sells sourdough starter kits, an idea that began in Purl’s Colorado Springs home. The kits include a little bit of Duffy’s family history; the dehydrated sourdough has been in his family since 1952 when his mother was…
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WATCH: Train hitting Platteville Police cruiser video released
The Fort Lupton Police Department on Friday released some video showing the moments surrounding the crash where a patrol car that was parked on train tracks with a detained woman inside and was struck by a train, according to the Denver Gazette’s news partner 9News. The video is eight minutes long and contains edited portions…
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LIFE | A butterfly oasis just beyond Denver
Into its 27th year, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo. is proud to call itself the only invertebrate-focused zoo of its kind accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Invertebrates are said to account for 94% of the world’s entire animal kingdom. That, along with their documented demise, underscores the importance of Butterfly Pavilion’s…
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Tipping Point: A Call for Change on the Colorado
One hundred years of the Colorado River Compact — the agreement that divides 15 million acre feet of water each year among the seven states of the Colorado River basin and Mexico — has wrecked on the shoals of climate change and 22 years of drought. It doesn’t work anymore. What happens when the law…
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LIFE | Betty Ford Alpine Garden
The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, located in Vail, is the world’s highest botanical garden at an 8,200 feet altitude in the Rocky Mountains. (Video by Jon Mitchell)
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Tipping Point: Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
Some 10,000 households on the vast Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in three states, are still without running water. Native American tribes hold some of the most senior water rights in the Colorado River Basin, but history has shown that having senior water rights and having water are two different realities. The tribes,…
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NEWS | Deputy Andrew Peery funeral service
A funeral service for fallen El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Peery was held Monday at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, followed by a law enforcement processional. Peery was killed after responding to a shooting on Sunday, Aug. 7, in Widefield. Two others died, according to authorities.
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Tipping Point: Lake Powell reaches record lows amid drought
Drought on the Colorado River is threatening the ability of major dams, including Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Ariz., to produce hydropower, which comprises 54% of renewable energy production in the Southwest. The low levels on Lake Powell have also had a negative impact on recreation, complicating boat access. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Tipping Point: Urban Demands on the Colorado River
Urban areas in the West and water districts are working to conserve water from the Colorado River Basin as it continues to face its driest 22-year stretch in more than 100 years. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Tipping Point: Colorado River basin farms stunted by megadrought
Farmers across the Colorado River Basin are facing an uncertain future in agriculture as the river’s watershed faces ongoing drought, rising irrigation costs, and conservation cutbacks. (Video by Skyler Ballard)