Leadville Colorado
Colorado's Highest Mountain Town
Not just sore throats and scraped knees: School nurses play pivotal role in containing COVID-19 in Colorado
Over the nearly 20 years Marnie McKercher has been in school nursing, she’s seen the profession change — but perhaps never as quickly as it has this year, when a global pandemic put infectious disease mitigation at the top of her priorities list. School nurses are no...
Guest Commentary: Colorado students need to be in school. Here’s why.
As Colorado leaders enact a patchwork set of COVID-19 regulations, one thing has become abundantly clear. We are prioritizing our adult playgrounds — bars, gyms, and restaurants — over the urgent need to ensure that schools remain open. Our actions prove where our...
Colorado illegal aliens pretty excited about a Biden presidency
Liberals, progressives and socialists around the nation have been celebrating Joe Biden’s apparent election ever since the major media outlets began calling the race for him. Out in Colorado, CBS News has been interviewing one particular group of supporters who appear...
Colorado public defenders clash with Larimer County judges over jury trials during pandemic
Two Colorado public defenders could be held in contempt of court after they refused to go forward with a jury trial in Larimer County on Tuesday over COVID-19 safety concerns, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial in one of the few counties in the state where...
The quest to save a dying Spanish dialect in Colorado’s San Luis Valley: “A treasure that exists nowhere else in the world”
SAN LUIS VALLEY — Dennis Lopez can trace his lineage here back to 1847, when pioneers from Mexico first put down roots in the area. He still tends to a ranch owned by his wife’s family in San Luis, a small valley community of less than 1,000 people that’s regarded as...
Foodies flock to In-N-Out’s grand opening in Colorado Springs
California transplant Ken Vizzini has longed for a piece of home ever since he moved to Colorado in 2008."I'm from Southern California, and I have been wanting In-N-Out to open since I got here," said Vizzini, who lives in the Security-Widefield area south of Colorado...
Coronavirus pandemic’s third wave threatens to flood Colorado hospitals
When Gov. Jared Polis stood in front of a podium on Nov. 13 and asked Colorado’s hospitals to prepare for a flood of COVID-19 patients and staff shortages, it was an omen of the days to come. Sometime that weekend, a doctor in Denver spoke to her dying patient one...
Colorado Votes to Bring Back Wolves For the First Time Since the 1940s
Colorado voters approve historic ballot initiative to reintroduce gray wolves to the Rocky mountains, where they’ve been extinct for nearly a century Wolves once roamed all over North America, but were almost entirely wiped out by the government and farmers by the...
Gov. Jared Polis will select one of these three people to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court
The retirement of Nathan B. Coats, the last Republican-appointed judge on the Colorado Supreme Court, has cleared the way for Gov. Jared Polis to make his first pick for the high court. Polis, a Democrat, is expected to announce his choice this week. Former Gov. John...