Salazar rips ‘bitter obstructionism’ as GOP senators reject Interior deputy

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar blasted Republican senators Wednesday for voting down his pick for deputy secretary.

The Senate’s 57-39 vote fell three votes shy of the 60 votes required to thwart a threatened Republican filibuster against the nomination of David Hayes, an environmental lawyer who served as Interior’s No. 2 for the last three years of the Clinton administration. It was the first time the Senate has blocked an Obama nomination.

New Colorado skier plate could touch off Utah boarder war

More people ski more days in Colorado than any other state, but you wouldn’t know it out on the open road, unless you’re stuck in weekend skier traffic on I-70.

Salazar rolls back 11th-hour Bush administration oil and gas lease sale in Utah

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday did a 180 on an 11th-hour Bush administration oil and gas lease sale of 77 parcels on U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Utah near such sensitive areas as Arches and Canyonlands national parks.

Utah oil-and-gas auction marked by bogus bidder, Robert Redford and heated protest

More than 100 protesters outside a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil-and-gas drilling lease auction Friday in Salt Lake City charged the federal government with selling off 164,000 acres of public land for private profit, potentially defiling some of the state’s most treasured national parks.

Mitt’s Money: A Bit Here, More From Next Door

Coloradan Republicans have a clear favorite for president if first quarter donations are an indication – and it isn’t Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney raised more money in this state than all the eight other…