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Arizona, California, Nevada agree to short-term water cuts.
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (459+ words) The three states plan to save up to 1 million acre-feet of Colorado River water through 2028 to boost depleted reservoirs....
Today in History: May 6, kidnapped women found alive a decade later at Ohio home
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (286+ words) Today is Wednesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2026. There are 239 days left in the year. On May 6, 2013, three women who had been kidnapped and held for years are found alive at their captor's home in Cleveland, Ohio. (Ariel Castro pleaded guilty…...
What to know about hantavirus, the illness suspected in a cruise ship outbreak
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (526+ words) By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN The disease gained attention last year after late actor Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from a hantavirus infection in New Mexico. The World Health Organization said in a statement Sunday that detailed investigations of the…...
Charles Hansen's foresight led to Colorado-Big Thompson project
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (748+ words) You can thank one man who died 72 years ago for not having to go on water restrictions during this year's drought. The tombstone over Charles Hansen's grave at the Linn Grove Cemetery in Greeley identifies him as the "Father of…...
Critics question feds" plans for future of Colorado River: In years of severe drought, "the system is failing"
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1364+ words) The multitude of water managers tasked with overseeing the drying Colorado River system stand at a dire crossroads. As a yearslong stalemate in negotiations persists between the seven states that share the river, it's become increasingly likely that the federal…...
Charlie Kirk highway got vetoed in Arizona. Elected officials are citing politics
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (278+ words) There will be no Charlie Kirk highway in his home state of Arizona. The reason: politics. Exactly whose politics is to blame has become a point of debate. Kirk, the conservative activist known for his campus debates, was assassinated last…...
In a tiny Colorado town, infighting dissolved the government. Now the water's running out.
2+ mon, 17+ hour ago (1820+ words) HARTMAN " Tammy Lucero and Velma Casanova Cooper were leaving a Board of Trustees'meeting at the old schoolhouse on Jan. 13 when they ran into familiar trouble. For years, tensions had been building in this tiny southeast Colorado town of 30, just a…...
Colorado's top election official wants to know what Trump administration is doing with voter roll data
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (455+ words) Months after federal officials demanded voter data from Colorado and several other states, Secretary of State Jena Griswold and several peers are trying to determine what exactly the Trump administration is doing with the data. It was addressed to Pam…...
Evans joins pullback from participation in NISP water project
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (59+ words) Another community in Northern Colorado has decided to pull back from participation in a proposed massive water project whose costs continue to escalate. City Council members in Evans last week decided not to participate in water agreements for 2026 related to…...
Amid "a transparency desert," states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What"s next?
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1260+ words) Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River " and the 40 million people who rely on it " are once again careening toward a deadline imposed by federal authorities, with little progress to show publicly. Federal officials gave…...