Regional News

Luke Ilderton, deputy director for Energy Outreach Colorado said this year's unusually hot summer and high number of air quality alert days due to wildfires have put additional strain on the state's most vulnerable residents.

Industry groups have argued that current rules already provide wildlife protections, and warn that additional setbacks could hurt smaller operators.

In Colorado, at least for the foreseeable future, the privately administered SAT isn’t going anywhere, despite longstanding criticisms that it hurts the prospects of low-income students of color. However, the unusual circumstances this year can allow Colorado’s college leaders and policy makers an opportunity to reflect on the use of the test, especially for admissions.

Firefighters at the Mullen Fire on the Wyoming-Colorado line and the Cameron Peak Fire in northern Colorado struggled Monday as winds picked up in the afternoon as expected.

As Colorado assesses feasibility of saving water in a Lake Powell drought pool, study shows ranchers and farmers could see net benefit from payments over five-year period.

Enrollment at Front Range Community College’s four campuses is down 5.7%. Locally, the Boulder County campus in Longmont has seen a small decline of 51 students, or 1%, since September 2019.

“We still highly recommend online but for clients who need more hands-on help, we decided to take everything back to in person,” said Tech Pals Co-founder Joshua Merriman.

The draft version of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap, released Wednesday by the Colorado Energy Office, proposes a wide variety of “near term actions” that could be taken within the next two years to put the state on track to meet its new statutory emissions goals.

Colorado officials said the state and local hospitals have made progress in increasing their stores of PPE, but Kevin Klein, Colorado’s director for the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management acknowledged that it remains very difficult to get N95 masks and gowns at the volume the state needs. 

In 2016, just one question referenced climate change during a town hall event.