- For the first time in more than 55 years, rafters can float on the river from Leadville to Cañon City without disruption.
- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden have found a way to turn pixelated images of climate information into accurate, high-resolution forecasts.
- There might not be much skiing in Nebraska, but the Cornhusker state is helping Vail Resorts reach its 100 percent renewable electricity goal.
- A carbon exchange program between a Denver craft brewery and a cannabis cultivator will grow after a successful state pilot.
- The segregation-era guide stopped publication in 1967, a few years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. But entrenched racism continued to make Black people, and other people of color, feel unsafe in certain spaces.
- Colorado is also aiming to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas typically used in air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
- The trail's permit system will be used to limit the number of people out at one time.
- Libraries are often the only place a person experiencing homeless can access the internet to connect to housing, food and job searches.
- Seven counties lifted their Stay-at-Home orders this past weekend and transitioned to what Gov. Jared Polis calls “level two” of the state’s coronavirus response— Safer-at-Home.
- Colorado's daily coronavirus infection growth rate and hospitalization growth rate continue to decline, Polis said, but statistics show the state is up to 848 COVID-19 deaths.
- Since the report's release, another JBS Greeley beef plant employee has died of COVID-19.
- These are uncertain times for most, and even more so for some undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The Supreme Court is expected to make its decision soon on whether to continue DACA — a program in which about 15,000 people in Colorado are enrolled.
- Gov. Jared Polis outlined why now was the time to lift Colorado’s statewide stay-at-home order and gave an update on “Level Two” of the state’s COVID-19 response: Safer-at-Home. “Why now?” Polis said on Monday from the state Capitol.
- More than 500 different organizations have come together to organize Earth Day Live, a three-day, communal livestream mobilization.
- If Colorado lifts its social distancing measures, public health leaders agree that testing alone won’t stop a resurgence of coronavirus.
- Statewide, the snowpack is 102 percent of normal according to data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
