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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...

Judge orders industries to pay royalties for public land extraction Tens...

When energy corporations produce oil, gas or coal on public lands, they make royalty payments to the federal government and the states where production...

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...

Latest Trump overhaul on public lands would undo endangered species protections...

If you’ve ever marveled at the sight of a bald eagle or a lynx or a black-footed ferret in Colorado, thank the Endangered Species...

The price of a national park fee hike

When Kitty Benzar bought her house in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest 30 years ago, federal law prohibited land-management agencies from charging people to...

Wiretap: Democratic women in the Senate take the lead in pushing...

Democratic women in the Senate lead the way in calling for Al Franken to resign. And as Tina Dupuy writes in The Atlantic, it...

Interior overhauls sage grouse conservation

On a windy morning in September 2015, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell stood at a podium on a patch of scruffy earth at Colorado’s Rocky...

The Home Front: Bears, hot springs and how Colorado reacts to...

Gov. John Hickenlooper responded to President Donald Trump's rollback of environmental regulations with a commitment to renewable energy, says the Greeley Tribune today with an...