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2024-09-11 22:07:21

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A member of the Mountain View Town Council was arrested in the shooting

2024-09-11 21:51:29

Two Colorado teens jumped a fence and looked for a homeowner, hoping to ask for permission to come back later. Then one of them was shot.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/11/homecoming-photo-shoot-shooting/

2024-06-26 16:00:44

Lauren Boebert's primary win makes her reelection to Congress — albeit in a different district — highly likely.
This and more in today's Sunriser newsletter: https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/26/the-sunriser-20240626/

2024-03-15 20:06:01

A dozen citations handed out to truckers who clogged I-70 without chains on their rigs during snowstorm
https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/15/colorado-state-patrol-citations-snowstorm/

2024-03-12 20:06:01

Colorado's labor market in 2023 wasn’t as sluggish as federal data previously estimated.
“What this really means is, I think, a lot rosier picture, for lack of a better word, for Colorado’s labor market than certainly what we were seeing last year,” said Ryan Gedney, senior economist at the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/12/colorado-unemployment-rate-job-growth-2023/

2023-09-05 22:29:01

Settlement reached in lawsuit alleging “pervasive” violations of open meetings laws in Colorado House
https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/05/colorado-house-open-meetings-lawsuit/?utm_content=bufferf3b30&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

2023-08-21 22:29:01

Nearly half of the state’s hospitals have negative operating margins, meaning that revenue from patient care is not covering what it costs to provide that care. Large hospitals, like UCHealth, have returned to profitability, but others, such as Denver Health, continue to lose money.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/15/colorado-hospital-finances-q1-2023/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_content=buffer48477&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

2023-08-07 22:29:01

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are searching for a black bear that bit a man relaxing in a hammock at a campground in Trinidad — marking the third bear attack in Colorado this year.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/07/search-continues-bear-attack-man-hammock/?utm_content=buffer8bc87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

2023-07-06 18:05:01

Six cows were killed in a 2021 oil leak. A Colorado rancher has now been stuck in a yearslong dispute with the operator to get paid back.
“I am not against oil and gas,” rancher Kevin Davis said. “I just want it done right.”
https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/05/oil-spill-kills-cows-western-operating-colorado/?utm_content=bufferdff02&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

2023-07-03 21:03:02

The Supreme Court last week effectively barred affirmative action in private and public higher education institutions. Here’s how Colorado colleges are responding.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/06/30/colorado-colleges-universities-affirmative-action/?utm_content=buffer447c1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer