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The Home Front: The feds have ‘finalized a plan limiting daily visitation to Hanging...

"The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a plan limiting daily visitation to Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon through a year-round permit system and implementing...

The Home Front: Russians ‘targeted the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’ with hacking and...

"Russian military intelligence targeted the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Anti-Doping Agency with a four-year hacking and smear campaign, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday,"...

The Home Front: The Animas River ‘appears to have hit an all-time low’ Your...

"The Animas River appears to have hit an all-time low," reports The Durango Herald. "For the past week or so, the river in Durango...
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News Poetry: Upslope Downfall

Brilliant trees drop their gold. Today’s Supreme Court nominee Yesterday’s boozy rapist Humphrey’s voice for civil rights against his Southern colleagues only to take the progressive teeter to Johnson’s Texas totter At a too perfect fall...

The Home Front: In Colorado, an ‘ever-growing list of mountain towns’ regulate short-term rentals...

"As the short-term rental industry continues to grow in Summit County, the town of Frisco is looking to join the ever-growing list of mountain...

The Home Front: University of Colorado researchers plan to launch a satellite to explore...

"University of Colorado researchers are planning to put a satellite in orbit around the moon to observe what they call the universe's 'dark ages'...

The Home Front: After ACLU letter, Durango has ‘stopped issuing citations to people who...

"The city of Durango has stopped issuing citations to people who camp overnight in public open spaces, excluding parks and sidewalks, city officials said,"...

The Home Front: Colorado ‘fireworks fanatic’ applies for permit to ‘build the world’s largest...

"It turns out that you need a special use permit to build the world's largest aerial firework in Routt County," reports The Steamboat Pilot....

The Home Front: A judge’s ruling ‘is raising doubts’ about BLM plan for 100,000...

"A federal judge's ruling is raising doubts about whether the Bureau of Land Management can proceed with offering more than 100,000 acres of oil...

The Home Front: In western Colorado, natural gas drilling is ‘on a pace similar...

"Natural gas drilling activity in western Colorado's Piceance Basin is on a pace similar to last year's as companies wait to see how a...