
16-county tornado watch, heavy rain, flash floods usher in holiday weekend
The tornado watch included Denver and Denver International Airport, but there were no reports of tornadoes or damage.

Mud pushing Colorado Springs mobile homes from foundations
Residents there began noticing problems Thursday night when items began slipping off shelves in one home and then the skirting around its foundation fell off.

Benches moved in Durango to prevent loitering, panhandling
The city manager assistant says benches can be moved at the request of merchants to reduce panhandling and for other reasons.

Forest Service approves Wolf Creek Ski Area land swap
The land swap will allow construction of a road to a proposed residential development near the Wolf Creek Ski Area.

Strong dollar means weak rural West economies
A new survey suggests the economy will remain weak in rural parts of 10 Western and Plains states because the strong U.S.

Colorado students get another break on standardized testing
Colorado school children are getting more than one testing break this week.

Traffic alert: 650 Army vehicles, 4,000 soldiers on the road
Nearly 650 vehicles will travel south from Colorado Springs next week in the biggest Army convoy the area has seen in decades.

Fewer standardized tests are now law in Colorado
Gov. Hickenlooper also signed a separate bill ratcheting back social studies testing.

Memorial Day weekend: Independence Pass should be open; Mt. Evans Highway closed
Crews had only cleared six miles of the 14.7-mile road to Mount Evans as of Monday.

Colorado Springs voters choose John Suthers as new mayor
Suthers had about 68 percent of the vote compared to about 32 percent for former Colorado Springs Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace.

VA: Aurora hospital construction will stop if Congress doesn’t act
Congress must raise the spending limit by $200 million to $1 billion, the VA says.

Flood warning for El Paso, Pueblo counties
Tuesday’s flood warning includes the east side of the area burned by the Waldo Canyon fire.

Higher hurdle for Colorado ballot measures signed into law
Colorado has one of the easiest processes for residents to amend the state constitution.

No assault charges against Douglas Bruce
Douglas Bruce was in court in Denver on April 10 addressing prosecutors’ claim that he violated his probation.

Tsarnaev sentencing won’t affect us, Aurora shooting trial jurors tell judge
Judge Carlos Samour asked the jurors about the Boston case on Monday, the start of the fourth week in the theater shooting trial.

9 oil well deaths lead to warning about inhaling chemicals
Three of the deaths were in Colorado. All of the deaths involved workers at crude production tanks.