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The Home Front

The Home Front: Highway deaths with pot in the bloodstream is up, but those...

"The number of highway deaths involving Colorado drivers who had marijuana in their system grew again in 2017, a new state study shows," reports...

The Home Front: U.S. Senators Bennet and Gardner want $9M reimbursement for cleaning up...

"Colorado lawmakers are making a second bid to get local water utilities reimbursed for cleaning up toxins tied to the Air Force after failing...

The Home Front: Grand Junction restricted outdoor water use ‘in what may be the...

In what may be the time first ever, the city of Grand Junction on Tuesday imposed mandatory outdoor water use restrictions, as the ongoing...

The Home Front: Wage theft is on the rise in Eagle County where working...

"Megan McGee Bonta, of Catholic Charities in Eagle County, has numerous heart-wrenching tales of local working families stiffed on pay and forced into near...

The Home Front: ‘Links between wildfires and climate change in Colorado’

"Colorado residents grew accustomed to the sight of smoke this summer as a faint haze from wildfires across the state formed an ominous backdrop...

The Home Front: Windsor is ‘the safest community in Colorado,’ according to new FBI...

"Six Weld County municipalities were named among Colorado's 20 safest cities, according to 2016 FBI crime data analyzed by safewise.com," reports The Greeley Tribune....

The Home Front: ‘Colorado is expected to gain an eighth seat in Congress’ after...

"No matter how Coloradans vote Nov. 6 on whether to change how the state draws congressional district boundaries, the people who draw the lines...

The Home Front: Six Colorado counties are trying to create a model to prevent...

"La Plata and Montezuma counties are among six in Colorado selected to participate in collaboration to create a model for suicide prevention that could...

The Home Front: 16-year-old girl ‘arrested in connection with the death of a 7-year-old’

"A 16-year-old girl arrested in connection with the death of a 7-year-old Montbello boy is being held without bond after a Thursday detention hearing...

The Home Front: Colorado has the ‘largest disparity between white and Latino residents attaining...

"Among the states with the largest Latino populations, Colorado has the largest disparity between white and Latino residents attaining post-secondary education, according to a...