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This year’s festival takes place March 4 through 8 in downtown Durango.
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Utah's congressional delegation is using the Congressional Review Act to throw out the resource management plan for the nearly 2 million-acre landscape. Congress has not used the CRA to undo resource management plans before.
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They're urging the industry to adapt to a more diverse workforce
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The measure would expand the treatment options EMS agencies can bill for and lower state health care spending by reducing emergency room visits.
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Crisosto Apache was recently named Colorado's poet laureate, the first Indigenous person to hold that title. Apache is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné.
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Longtime newspaper photographer Brad Boner used to drive 10 minutes from his home in Victor, Idaho, several times a week for hydration infusions on the off-weeks of chemotherapy treatment. After the clinic closed in January, he and others are spending additional hours on the road for the same care. Hear that story and others on this week's Regional Roundup.
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Changes to the hunting and trapping of furbearing animals on Colorado's public lands are the subject of an upcoming CPW Commission meeting. Officials expect a high volume of attendees.
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The Utah congressional delegation introduced a resolution to undo the Biden-era management plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, employing a rarely used law that's never before been used to target a national monument.
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Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, have received a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study an unlikely candidate for future fuels: cactus pear.
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A celebration turns into a demonstration at the Death Valley National Park after Timbisha Shoshone historical plaques were removed from the park's visitors center.
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The Democratic and Republican parties in Colorado are holding precinct caucuses between March 3 and March 7. These are small, neighborhood-level meetings where party members gather in-person or on zoom.
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Republicans have been supportive of Trump’s actions in Iran, while Democrats argue that Trump overstepped his constitutional authority.
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The Bureau of Land Management oversees more than 12 million acres within Arizona alone. And much like the rest of the West, it's filled with public lands making up federally protected national monuments that hold unique value for tribes.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether Boulder and Boulder County can sue fossil fuel companies for damages caused by climate change. ExxonMobil and Suncor USA say states are pre-empted by federal law, but the Colorado Supreme Court disagreed.
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The SEED Act would have restricted the use of neonicotinoid-coated seeds.
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Though recent winter storms have brought some relief to the snow drought in the Rocky Mountains, experts think it won’t be enough to bring our snowpack back up to average after a record-breaking dry start to winter. That’s a problem for the region’s multi-billion-dollar ski industry.
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A new report from climate central shows that extremely warm winter days are on the rise.
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The BIA, which is responsible for overseeing trust responsibilities with 575 federally recognized tribes, focused on reducing its own workforce through mass layoffs and hiring freezes within the Interior Department – much like agencies elsewhere.