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Trump nominates Colorado native and ex-lobbyist Bernhardt to head Interior department...

President Trump on Monday announced that he’ll nominate David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist and George W. Bush administration official, to become the next Interior...

Where private land meets public interest

Ranchers, the government and developers are hashing out the relationship between public and private land on the Colorado-New Mexico border.   This story originally appeared on...

Senate storm brews over pipelines, spray tans save prom, legislators become...

It's the 50th day of the legislative session. The senate is leaning toward letting someone lay a section of pipeline through your yard.

Salazar: Economic growth more often tied to recreation than to extraction

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar this week said that economic growth in rural areas of the West depends as much or more on...