A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders.
A proposal to enhance penalties for lying about elections is the latest divisive voting proposal to hit Colorado's legislature.
Three teenagers stuck for a night in Colorado's mountains during a blizzard survived by burning what they could, including their snowmobile.
Newly acquired forward Steve Downie could make his debut with the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night as the Avalanche try to complete their first season sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in nearly two decades.
Garden City commissioners approved resolutions offering symbolic and financial support to an Amtrak route through southwest Kansas.
Montrose officials are planning to honor veterans by helping them find housing and jobs.
Vail Resorts has agreed to buy Kirkwood Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for about $18 million.
Colorado weather forecasters say winds up to 100 miles per hour are possible through tomorrow on the Front Range and eastern Plains. Parts of Colorado 128 and Colorado 93 south of Boulder had to be closed because of gusty...
A new bridge has been built in southern Wyoming with the help of a Colorado county.
Homeland Security officials say the federal agency is planning to increase its presence fighting drug cartels in New Mexico's Four Corners region.
Some car dealers who are approving high-risk loans for the vehicles they sell are installing GPS tracking units to protect their investments.
Three teenagers stuck for a night in a blizzard survived by burning what they could, including their snowmobile.
Three people have been injured after a home exploded near Durango while a gas leak was being investigated.
El Paso County authorities say three children are safe after two people were found dead in a home following reports of a shooting.
Colorado weather forecasters say winds up to 100 miles per hour are possible through Thursday on the Front Range and eastern Plains.
Sen. Mark Udall says the national debt is one of the biggest threats to national security that requires cuts to the military budget and finding ways to rein in Medicare and health care spending.
A Civil War veteran buried in an unmarked Colorado grave is finally getting a headstone.
A long-debated requirement that voters show photo IDs when they cast ballots is back before the Colorado Legislature.
Residents in the Fort Carson area can expect to see and hear more helicopters when Army aviators from Fort Campbell, Ky., conduct high-altitude training in Colorado this spring.
El Paso County commissioners have moved to change oil and gas regulations that they recently approved, following concerns from state officials.
A law firm representing a Coloradan who was treated for listeriosis after eating cantaloupe says the man has died.
Strong winds are expected to continue in parts of Colorado and Wyoming through Thursday.
Stickers circulated to businesses in Fruita with the acronym WTF - "Welcome to Fruita" - will not be used to promote tourism because City Council members oppose the idea.
Job postings that state unemployed applicants need not apply will remain legal as a Republican state House committee rejected a discrimination measure.
Three children have been hit by a school bus after getting off the bus.
The artist Christo is pushing back the time frame for his Over the River project, which would involve suspending 5.9 miles worth of silvery, translucent fabric over specific sections of a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas...
A 60-year-old woman whose grandson died after being taken to a hospital has been formally charged with first-degree murder.
A top officer in the Global Positioning System program says the Pentagon's post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan strategy will provide sufficient funding for GPS.
Teenagers won't need permission slips for indoor tanning beds in Colorado anytime soon.
A debate over whether to ban Colorado employers from using credit reports against job applicants became feisty when Senate Democratic Leader John Morse said Republicans are trying to protect corporations while Democrats want...
A woman facing federal mortgage and real estate fraud charges must turn over an unencrypted version of her hard drive after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to hear the case.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that some political attack ads are legal if they don't urge voters to elect or defeat a particular candidate.
A pit bull has been euthanized after biting a baby in the face, leaving the infant with serious injuries.
Colorado Springs police say a suspect in a car crash that left one man dead and another injured after they were pinned between two vehicles has turned himself in.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has picked one of the state's leading environmentalists to be its state director.
Colorado officials are waiting for the federal government to decide whether the state can have its own roadless rule.
The last of three Air Force Academy cadets charged with sexual misconduct faces a hearing to determine whether he will be court-martialed.
An agreement that Denver Water reached with almost three dozen Western Slope water users last year is getting its first signatures.
Forecasters are urging backcountry sports enthusiasts to stay out of mountain areas in central Colorado because of dangerous avalanche conditions.
Authorities say a newborn baby girl wasn't abandoned outside a Southern California gas station as originally thought. Long Beach police say investigators believe the baby's mother either called 911 herself or she...
Denver police have issued a so-called "Medina Alert" to try to find a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian.
Selling or manufacturing synthetic drugs known as "bath salts" would be illegal in Colorado under a bill in consideration at the state Legislature.
Lawmakers are considering banning red-light and speeding cameras in Colorado with a bill up for its first vote.
Authorities are searching for a man who they say fired a shot at an officer and ran in Denver.
Denver police have issued a so-called "Medina Alert" to try to find a hit-and-run driver who left a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries.
A woman's family is trying to find out what happened to the woman's remains, which her daughter tried to send through the mail from Arizona.
Colorado State University Tony Frank says the school will focus on four guidelines as it explores putting a new football stadium on campus.
Police are investigating the death of a worker in east Denver.
Grand Junction police have arrested a Colorado Mesa University football player accused of assault.
Sheriff's officials have identified a backcountry skier who died in an avalanche on Wolf Creek Pass as 37-year-old Andre Hartlief.
House lawmakers approved a bill to forbid the state from seizing Colorado residents' firearms during a declared state of emergency.
Colorado Senators are debating a measure to restrict employers from using consumer credit information against job applicants unless the job they're applying for is in the financial or security sectors.
A plane that crashed in a Colorado snowstorm, killing two people, was a twin-engine Cessna 414A registered in Texas.
Authorities say a man suffered life-threatening injuries after he was dragged by a pickup in the Denver suburb of Westminster.
The Defense Department says an Air Force officer from Colorado is among four people killed in the crash of military plane in Djibouti (jih-BOO'-tee), Africa.
Former Nebraska track star Rhonda Blanford-Green is the new executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association.
A winter storm in eastern and northeastern Colorado has prompted authorities to close eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 from Denver almost to the Kansas state line.
A suspect has escaped from a Denver hospital where he was being treated for a gunshot wound in his leg.
A woman has been found unconscious on a trail in Rocky Mountain National Park a day after her family reported she hadn't returned from an outing.
Authorities say a 15-year-old girl from Wellesley, Mass., has died while skiing in Colorado.
The Bureau of Land Management is raising fees for two Shelf Road Recreation Area campgrounds north of Canon City.
Authorities say two people are dead and four others injured after a private airplane from Texas crashed just short of an airport runway during a heavy snowstorm in Colorado.
An investigation by The Denver Post has found that over the past two years, private education consultants took home 35 percent, or $9.4 million, of the $26.6 million in federal money meant to turn around failing schools in...
A spokesman for the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office says an assistant U.S. Attorney died while snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park.
After seven years of decline, coal production in Colorado increased 10.4 percent in 2011 to nearly 28 million tons as companies tapped into new markets abroad.
A noted New York lawyer and Ponzi scheme victim of Bernie Madoff has signed on to help victims of New Mexico swindler Doug Vaughan.
Authorities say a Fruitvale man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself with a semi-automatic handgun while looking for what he thought was a prowler around his home.
A piece of the World Trade Center destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks is on display in Pueblo.
An investigation is under way after a 104-car train loaded with coal derailed in De Beque Canyon in western Colorado.
An 85-pound Argentine mastiff dog that was impounded after viciously biting a Denver television news anchor is back home with its owner after 10 days of mandatory quarantine.
A 53-year-old disabled Longmont woman whose apartment owner tried to charge fees for her service pet says she is relieved she will be able to keep the pet in her home at no cost.
A 27-year-old Windsor man accused of severely abusing his 5-month-old son has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
A former Montezuma County finance director accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the county has pleaded guilty to theft charges.
First Lady Michelle Obama is spending Presidents Day weekend in Aspen with her daughters, Sasha and Malia.
A 60-year-old Commerce City woman who was arrested after the death of her 4-year-old grandson has been charged with child abuse resulting in death.
A bill introduced in the Colorado Senate would allow Indian tribal elders to work in public schools as teachers of their native languages.
An agreement that Denver Water reached with almost three dozen Western Slope water users last year is about to get its first signatures.
The Environmental Protection Agency says a project to divert more water from western Colorado to Front Range cities could further degrade ecosystems along the upper Colorado River.
After five years of losing money, the Greeley Stampede says it made money last year.
A 44-year-old Denver man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping two hikers near Nederland in 2010.
Colorado transportation officials are reminding drivers to expect heavy traffic along Interstate 70 west of Denver over Presidents Day weekend.
Marijuana activists in Colorado have turned in thousands more signatures in their effort to once again put a legalization initiative on the ballot.
A 60-year-old woman has been arrested after the death of her 4-year-old grandson from Commerce City.
Authorities say two children are being rescued from a small pond in Denver and both appear to be all right.
A federal judge wants more information before deciding whether to throw out a challenge to Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
A man who authorities say claimed he was a sovereign citizen and not subject to state taxes has pleaded guilty to a federal charge stemming from a package with white powder mailed to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
A federal judge wants more information before deciding whether to throw out a challenge to Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
Prosecutors have filed four charges against a 14-year-old girl suspected in a hammer attack at Columbine High School.
Investigators say DNA has linked a Colorado inmate suspected of being the "Ether Man" serial rapist to a string of sexual assaults that roiled the University of Oklahoma campus from 1985 to 2005.
A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys 'R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed.
The Army says 300 soldiers from Fort Carson are headed to Afghanistan to train and advise Afghan forces.
Most of Colorado's representatives in the U.S. House have backed renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits.
Some Colorado lawmakers are worried about the strength of the U.S. dollar - and they want to legalize gold and silver coins as currency.
A Colorado Republican senator told lawmakers who gave initial approval to repealing criminal libel that what people write on Facebook shouldn't land them in jail.
Military investigators say two senior officials at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., were negligent in statements they made about credentials of the school's faculty.
Job cuts are under way as the Eagle County school district cuts up to 70 full-time jobs.
A disabled Longmont woman is fighting to keep her service cat after her apartment owner tried to charge fees.
Wyoming lawmakers are considering requiring some welfare recipients to undergo drug tests.
Backcountry outdoor enthusiasts are being warned to be careful this holiday weekend because the avalanche danger is high.
Animal lovers are expected to be out in force this weekend looking for bighorn sheep to make sure they won't be hurt by an art project.
Officials at the University of Colorado are divided over a proposed state measure that would require universities to anonymously disclose salaries.
The San Juan Basin Health Department building in Durango is expected to reopen following cleanup of a mercury spill.
Anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce is heading to jail.
Marijuana legalization activists in Colorado say they won't fall short this time making statewide ballots.
The price of a single-day lift ticket at Steamboat Ski Area has topped $100.
An Air Force Academy instructor is being honored for rushing to the aid of injured spectators after a plane crash killed 11 people at an air race in Nevada last year.
Monte Vista police are trying to identify a person wearing a ski mask who was seen leaving the area where a couple were found dead.
Senators have rejected a Republican proposal to limit the scope of how Colorado regulates child care businesses.
A backcountry skier has died in an avalanche on Wolf Creek Pass.
A vote on an overhaul of strict school punishment policies adopted after the Columbine High School shootings has been delayed.
Nevada football coach Chris Ault has agreed to a two-year extension that will bring his salary to $535,000 by 2015. That's about half the average salary in the Mountain West Conference where he'll begin his 28th...
The city of Longmont's planning commission has recommended approving new rules for the oil and natural gas industry.
A Republican sheriff in Colorado says his agency spent more than $25,000 on security costs when Mitt Romney held a rally this month, and he'll be sending the bill to the GOP presidential candidate's campaign.
A monthly survey of bankers in 10 Midwest and Great Plains states shows the rural economy slowing down, but reflects strong gains in hiring and farmland prices.
A bill to increase film incentives for productions in Colorado cleared its first hurdle in the House.
A federal appeals court has rejected Wyoming's request for it to reconsider a decision upholding a 2001 rule barring development on millions of acres roadless areas in national forests.
A Basalt High School girls basketball coach accused of having sexual encounters with a 17-year-old male student has been arrested.
An 85-pound Argentine mastiff dog that was impounded last week after viciously biting a Denver television news anchor is headed home and won't face any serious consequences.
Two of three fugitive siblings who were the focus of a nationwide search last summer are due in court to enter pleas.
A Pennsylvania man has been convicted of third-degree murder for shooting a longtime friend in what he claimed was an accident.
Get out your boots and hats. A film casting company is recruiting possible extras in Colorado for a Disney remake of the classic movie "The Lone Ranger."
The mayor of Red Cliff is hoping the federal government will help with some of the costs of coping with a water emergency that shut off water to the town.
A defense attorney says branding women is not illegal as long as it is consensual.
A new Colorado precinct in Larimer County that has only two members is raising privacy concerns.
University of Colorado sports officials are trying to figure out what to with donations from a man accused of evading taxes and hiding millions of dollars in several Swiss bank accounts.
Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration is announcing plans to improve Colorado's child welfare program after 43 children died of abuse or neglect over the past five years.
The health department in Durango remains closed while crews continue to clean up a mercury spill.
A Colorado firm wants to build an oil pipeline from western North Dakota's booming oil patch to a pipeline hub in northern Minnesota.
The El Paso district attorney has decided that no charges will be filed against a man who killed another man with a rock while fleeing.
Twenty soldiers and Air Force personnel from Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force Base will spend a weekend camping, snowshoeing, skiing and fishing during an outing intended to help ease their transition back to civilian life.
Marijuana activists are headed to an Obama campaign office to protest what they consider "hostile actions" from the administration.
A sweeping trans fats ban for public schools is before Colorado senators after a two-week delay.
By KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press A Republican bill to boost the Colorado oil and gas industry faces its first test Thursday in the Democratic state Senate.
School discipline policies adopted after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings are getting a second look in Colorado.
The number of foreclosure filings in large Colorado counties continues to decline.
About 3,000 Fort Carson soldiers are preparing for a nine-month deployment in Afghanistan.
Jurors in western Pennsylvania resume deliberations Thursday in the trial of a man charged in the shotgun shooting death of his longtime friend.
Members of Colorado's congressional delegation are at odds over a proposal on oil shale.
Police say a Colorado prison inmate has been connected to 14 sexual assaults that occurred in Norman from 1985 to 2001.
The Denver airport's director of government affairs has had her security privileges suspended for 180 days after trying to bypass a security checkpoint to board a flight.
Basalt High School's girls basketball coach is facing allegations that she had sexual encounters with a 17-year-old male student over a four-month period.
Sprouts from the sandwich chain Jimmy John's have been linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness - again.
Two companies accused of promising not to compete against each other in auctions of four natural gas leases on federal land have each agreed to pay $275,000 under a proposed settlement of antitrust allegations.
Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights went under direct challenge in federal court Wednesday as state lawyers argued that a judge can't touch the amendment voters approved in 1992.
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed a bill to implement new teacher tenure rules in Colorado.
The Pentagon is offering new details of its plan for shifting from a combat mission in Afghanistan to one focused on training and advising Afghan forces as they gradually shoulder more of the combat burden.
A lawyer for Rod Blagojevich says he hopes to walk through the gates of whatever prison he'll report to next month without facing a gauntlet of cameras.
A pilot program is getting under way to help returning veterans go into farming while also revitalizing rural communities.
A U.S. magistrate judge is considering whether to release a Uzbek refugee on bail pending his trial on a charge of providing or attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
A proposed land swap that would consolidate a ranch for billionaire William Koch is headed back to the drafting board.
The Salvation Army in Grand Junction says it is not giving out bad food to needy people, even though some of the food may have exceeded expiration dates.
Federal officials have fined a Minnesota company nearly $12,000 for safety violations after a worker died in a grisly construction accident near Aspen Highlands in August.
Educators in Grand Junction are backing a teacher in a dispute over an Islamic song being sung by the high school choir.
Questions are being raised after the Colorado Department of Transportation started building a wildlife fence on Interstate 25 near Fountain that will cost about $1 million.
A task force in El Paso County is hoping to stop an alarming trend of young children being killed by their parents after 10 children died last year.
The owner of two Colorado golf courses has been indicted on federal tax evasion charges.
A response team from the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating mercury contamination that forced the San Juan Basin Health Department in Durango to close.
A civil rights complaint that a Colorado Indian woman did not get proper medical treatment has been settled.
Denver police are promising changes after a detective testified that witness descriptions of criminal suspects are often overwritten in computer records to reflect the descriptions of suspects later taken into custody.
Pitkin County is holding a meeting in Basalt to discuss recommendations on winter closures on federal lands.
Opponents of proposed rules to relax oversight of electronic voting machines are urging Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler to increase oversight to avoid fraud.
A coalition of Indian tribes is welcoming a court ruling that tribes cannot be held in contempt for commercial ventures such as personal loans offered over the Internet.
Same-sex couples are going to the Colorado Capitol to testify for a bill that would grant them similar rights to married couples.
A direct challenge to Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights is in federal court.
Federal officials say a $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for burglaries of Qwik Cash Pawn in Colorado Springs.
A defense attorney for a beekeeper accused in a fire that caused about $10 million in damage in downtown Fort Collins says as many as 75 to 100 witnesses could testify at his client's trial.
The Colorado Senate has yet to act on 174 appointments from the Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper this session involving 55 boards and commission this year.
A Denver Civil Service Commission panel has overturned the firing of a police detective who was accused of lying about failing to follow a tip about a hit-and-run crash.
A photographer for a wild horse protection group who says her First Amendment rights were violated when she was denied access to mustang roundups in Nevada has scored a victory in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Eagle County sheriff's officials have arrested three Avon residents suspected of distributing cocaine in the Vail area.
A Denver mother and father have each been charged with child abuse resulting in the serious bodily injury of their 3-year-old daughter, who prosecutors say weighed 19 pounds when she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
A semitrailer driver who troopers say drove about 11 miles in the wrong direction on Interstate 70 before causing a deadly, head-on crash near Limon (LY'-mun) has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Volunteers in Loveland are still stamping Valentine's Day cards sent to the northern Colorado city for its romantic postmark.
A proposal to give bidding preferences to companies that employ mostly Colorado workers for state projects is getting its first hearing.
A long-debated proposal about college tuition for illegal immigrants was expected for debate in the Colorado Senate Friday.
