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Lawmakers grill Trump official on plan to shift BLM HQ to...

WASHINGTON — The head of the Bureau of Land Management today defended the Trump administration’s plans to close the agency’s Washington, D.C., office and...

‘Journalism Matters’: Pueblo Chieftain employees protest cuts and their new owner...

A year ago, Denver Post journalists streamed out of their newsroom at the Adams County printing plant waving picket signs and loudly protesting their hedge-fund owner: "Hey-hey, Ho-ho, Alden...

Move BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal

WASHINGTON -- A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...

Guest Post: David Bernhardt for interior secretary? Not so fast!

Many Coloradans are rallying around President Trump's nomination of Rifle native David Bernhardt to be the next secretary of interior. However, a closer look...

Recording reveals oil industry execs laughing at Trump access In a...

Editor's note: This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay...

Guest Post: Colorado’s David Bernhardt has already shown his true colors...

Former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth penned a head-scratching piece in The Colorado Independent this week. In it, he paints the nomination of fellow Coloradan...

Guest Post: Secretary of the Interior – public citizen or...

The Coloradan nominated by President Trump to pick up the pieces from Ryan Zinke’s tumultuous tenure of the Department of Interior, David Bernhardt, knows...

Colorado oil and gas industry prepares for battle at the ballot...

Oil and gas companies in Colorado are on track to reach record production levels this year. But when industry representatives gathered on the top...