Tag: West
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Western Welcome Week Grand Parade celebrates 97th year in Littleton
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Western Welcome Week Grand Parade made its way through downtown Littleton for the 97th year on Saturday morning. A popular annual tradition through the city’s historic downtown, the parade featured a variety of local organizations, old cars, scout troops and both high school marching…
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Broncos unveil new uniforms to little fanfare
Only a handful of the Broncos newly-unveiled jerseys were sold while the Denver Gazette popped in the Broncos team store at Empower Field at Mile High fan store Monday morning.
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Rockies fans show out to home opener with low expectations, high spirits
Tens of thousands of Rockies fans set upon Coors Field for the team’s home opener on Friday despite a 1-6 record heading into the matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Biologists count West Nile mosquitoes
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Biologist Yailenne Rodriguez counts West Nile mosquitoes in the lab after Colorado’s wet spring left lots of standing water where the mosquitos which carry the West Nile virus lay their eggs. It can take only two days for larvae to hatch. So far one person in Colorado has died from West Nile in 2023, a…
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NEWS | Why a good snow year can’t save the Colorado River
The Colorado River is one of the West’s most vital resources. But 20 years of drought have stressed the entire river basin, forcing federal officials to call for massive cuts in water use. This winter, in the water-towers of the west, storms have dropped more than double the average snowpack in some Colorado mountains. But…
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Tipping Point: A Call for Change on the Colorado
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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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Tipping Point: Urban Demands on the Colorado River
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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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Nearly 600,000 people attend 2022 National Western Stock Show
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This year’s National Western Stock Show has come and gone, but before its gates closed Sunday until next January, more than half a million people in cowboy boots, buckles and hats took in the show. Despite hosting 586,756 people over a 16-day period, attendance was…
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Bureau of Land Management details departure from Grand Junction, return to D.C.
The Bureau of Land Management Tuesday announced plans to relocate senior leadership positions from its former Grand Junction national headquarters back to Washington, D.C. But, as part of the agency’s commitment to keeping a stronger presence in Colorado, the National Conservation Lands and Community Partnerships will anchor the BLM’s Western headquarters. BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning told…