- The top general at U.S. Space Command said during a congressional subcommittee hearing Wednesday that expensive communications infrastructure would need to be duplicated in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, if the U.S. Space Command were to move there from Colorado Springs.
- A lot of Colorado is made up of rural or frontier areas, and that means a lot of Colorado is facing a primary care shortage.
- Lakewood’s tight knit community of ethnic Serbs gathered to remember one of their own Saturday, a young man gunned down with nine others at a Boulder King Soopers last week.
- It’s a stark example of the persistent difficulty in recruiting young talent for the daunting workloads facing Colorado’s most isolated medical outposts.
- Rio silver medalist Sophia Herzog was all set to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, then the pandemic happened.
- A computer glitch delayed the opening of the reservation system for backcountry camping at Rocky Mountain National Park.
- Colorado’s political leaders saw Trump's decision to move the military's Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama as an overtly partisan one. Now there's an investigation into the move, but Colorado's aerospace leaders say the state will be OK.
- The uncertainty of where the COVID-19 pandemic will lead next has meant loads of uncertainty for people planning for their businesses' futures. For Rebecca Moon, that means getting a little help from other businesses in Colorado Springs.
- El Paso County has given the first dose of the vaccines to more than 53,000 people.
- Whatever happens, Peterson AFB will continue to host the command on an interim basis until 2026.
- Weld is a place that values its independence, fiercely protecting it from what many here call government overreach, as well as the Democrats who run the state and soon, after Inauguration Day, the nation.
- Weld County went for President Trump with nearly 60-percent of the vote in November’s elections. But sentiment around impeaching Trump runs the gamut as Republicans face the realities of an imminent Democratic administration in Washington.
- Colorado's Lockheed Martin is in the middle of a global fight over who will provide the best GPS system in the world. In November, a fourth Lockheed-built satellite carrying the newest GPS technology took off with plans for dozens more. They will all be controlled from Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and piloted by U.S. Space Force “Guardians.”
- Xcel filed the plan to accelerate Colorado’s transition to vehicle electrification.
- In this special episode, Colorado Public Radio reporter Dan Boyce uses interviews with friends and family, plus a fishing trip, to piece together lost memories from his own mental breakdown.
- A one-sentence court document submitted Wednesday by Colorado U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, does not elaborate further on the decision.
