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The distribution plan prioritizes three groups of people for the order in which people in those groups will be eligible to get vaccines. In the first phase, the priority recipients will be assisted living facility workers, home health care workers and outpatient pharmacists.

The Longmont Leader has teamed up with the Colorado News Collaborative to bring you news and information on the candidates, issues and races from across the state. 

The order was announced along with a number of recommendations from the state’s Special Eviction Prevention Task Force, which was created in August to examine housing instability caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 water year, which began Oct. 1, 2019, and ended Sept. 31, is now Colorado’s third driest on record, trailing behind only 2018 and 2002 for lack of precipitation, according to Peter Goble, service climatologist and drought specialist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Climate Center.

Cool autumn weather had been helping firefighters in their efforts to quell the Mullen Fire in southeastern Wyoming and northern Colorado and the Cameron Peak Fire in northern Colorado, but gusts of 70 mph complicated their overnight efforts.

Awards from the fund will be specifically targeted toward businesses and nonprofits that have limited access or no access to other means of financing through federal, state, or local programs, according to a news release.

While the sport sector’s environmental impact is not fully understood, it has a social platform and reach to influence a significant number of people worldwide to choose more sustainable behaviors. Brian McCullough, associate professor of sport management at Texas A&M University, says that sport organizations should be proactive in becoming more sustainable to increase business performance, deepen connections with fans and attract new ones.

Erin Miller with the Colorado Children's Campaign said between 2018 and 2019 alone, nearly 10,000 more Colorado kids lost coverage, the largest single-year increase in more than a decade.

Official drought designations have extended across 100% of Colorado since late July, and more than 90% of the state is now experiencing “severe” conditions or worse, according to the Drought Monitor’s intensity scale.

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic took over the country, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule reversing course on Obama-era vehicle emission standards.