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CPR Classical’s Carol Countdown®

CPR Classical's annual Carol Countdown® has been crowning Colorado's favorite carol for the past 17 years! Read about exciting carol matchups, enter to win tickets to seasonal holiday events, and vote ...
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Sand Creek Massacre Foundation alleges ICE actions echo the federal government’s treatment of Native Americans

The Sand Creek Massacre Foundation is accusing the federal government of repeating history. “We are again witnessing the dehumanization of targeted groups of people, the deputizing of an untrained ...
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Missy Woods, CBI investigator accused of mishandling evidence for years, facing her arraignment

The wheels are finally turning in the case against former Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods, who faces 102 felony charges related to years of mishandling DNA ...
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From selecting the music to handling pressure, figure skating coaches help their athletes find balance

Sometime later this week, after they’ve completed their short program or free skate, Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam will sit on a little bench in the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy, keeping as ...
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Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s newest poet laureate

Colorado has a new ambassador for poetry. Crisosto Apache was named the next poet laureate for the state at an announcement ceremony at the Capitol on Wednesday. Apache, who lives in Lakewood, is a ...
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Here are the Coloradan skiers and snowboarders headed to the Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn headline a list of Coloradans that will head to the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo next month. On Wednesday, U.S. Ski and Snowboard named 97 athletes to ...
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Rural hospitals wrestle with a new landscape after federal cuts, worry they’re starting to drown financially

On Colorado's Eastern Plains, south of Interstate 70, about 100 miles southeast of Denver, is the town of Hugo, established by ranchers, later a railway town. Lincoln Community Hospital and Care ...
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Feds to reject a Colorado clean air plan because it aims to close coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday it will reject Colorado’s latest plan to protect air quality over wilderness areas and national parks, citing the state’s attempt to ...
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House refuses to override Trump veto of Colorado water project

A majority of House Republicans voted to uphold President Donald Trump’s veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act despite a bipartisan and bicameral Colorado push to convince lawmakers to ...
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Youth gender affirming care suspended at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health

Children’s Hospital Colorado is suspending all gender-affirming care to patients under 18 years old amid an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. On Friday, the hospital ...
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First lodgepoles, now ponderosas, Colorado is fighting beetles on multiple fronts

Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order on Monday aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests along the front range. Polis said the infestation is in the beginning stages ...
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What does a series of record-breaking drug busts mean for Colorado?

Colorado authorities have earned the spotlight in the last month, announcing a series of record-breaking drug busts after months of multiple investigations, pointing to tables full of the often deadly ...