- A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is touring areas along the Colorado River to get a first-hand look at the challenges basin states are facing. At a stop in Western Colorado, Colorado's two senators discussed federal aid to river projects and the need for states to agree on future cuts to water use.
- As much of the state celebrates near-record snowpack levels, wildlife managers in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties worry harsh winter conditions threaten some of the state’s richest elk and deer herds.
- Cedaredge High School students are celebrating the culmination of a multi-year effort to change the names of two geographic features in Delta County. The creek and mesa were originally named after a racial slur. The new names, Clay Creek and Clay Mesa, were approved this month following a back-and-forth between Cedaredge students and the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board.
- Colorado continues to remember Pat Schroeder, the first woman elected to Congress in Colorado. She served 12 terms in the U.S. House. Schroeder died Monday at the age of 82. Her legacy lives on in those she inspired, like Wanda James. The CU Regent and local business owner remembers Schroeder as being a steady hand through her own political career.
