Michael Elizabeth Sakas interviews Jerry Mallett, president of Colorado Headwaters, in the Homestake Creek valley between near Red Cliff in March 2021. Mallett’s group works to restore and protect areas like this one, where a proposed dam could be situated. (Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)
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Colorado Springs leaders in D.C. to lobby for local interests and look for opportunities
“What are we not taking advantage of? What can we go after?”
Evergreen High School shooting prompts questions about adolescent brain development. Here’s what a family psychologist says
What drives an adolescent to attack fellow students and how to help kids who fear they’ll be next
‘What happens if we have a shooter?’ Evergreen parents raised concerns over campus security less than 24 hours before shooting.
Parents were told mountain schools had been ‘deprioritized.’
FBI was already investigating an account that may have been linked to the Evergreen shooter
The FBI has confirmed agents were investigating an online account discussing plans for a mass shooting.
Colorado appeals ruling allowing taxpayer-funded preschool to discriminate
The state is now appealing that decision, arguing that the First Amendment doesn’t prevent Colorado from ensuring every 4-year-old can attend preschool free from discrimination.
Long delays expected for traffic on a five mile stretch of Highway 50 along the Arkansas River in Fremont County
The road between Texas Creek and Parkdale from milepost 257 to 262 will open intermittently to allow traffic flow in a single direction.
