Originally published on March 8, 2018 2:25 pm It began in 2014. Doctors noticed a cluster of mysterious cases in Colorado and Wyoming. Children were coming in with weak and paralyzed limbs. Eventually, 120 patients across the U.S. came in with similar symptoms. Doctors and researchers weren’t sure what was going on.

Originally published on February 24, 2018 3:57 pm A fierce debate is taking place across the country right now: What to do about immigrants who came here illegally as children. Up until recently, they qualified for a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which protects them from deportation.

Originally published on March 8, 2018 2:04 pm In the spring of 1942, official posters went up across the West Coast and Arizona. All people of Japanese ancestry had one week to report to assembly centers.

Originally published on February 6, 2018 9:27 am The government could be heading into another shutdown Thursday, but some of the places deemed too essential to close are seldom heard of, like this windowless office in Boulder.  It’s a weather prediction center, but not the usual kind.

Across eight western states, voters increasingly consider themselves to be conservationists, according to a poll out Thursday from the Colorado College “State of the Rockies” Project. The survey also found that westerners largely prioritize protection of air, water and wildlife over energy development.

It's illegal to drive impaired from cannabis, just like it's illegal to drive drunk. And the number of deaths due to car crashes involving marijuana is rising.