by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Colorado’s roughly 30,000 state workers are slated to get pay raises in each of the next three years under a labor agreement signed Thursday morning by Gov. Jared Polis and the union representing state employees Polis said the benefits guaranteed in the agreement with...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Drought conditions have nearly enveloped Colorado this fall, as forecasters call for a dry winter across the West and a late-season fire blazes near Estes Park.The U.S. Drought Monitor maps released Thursday showed most of the state is now classified as in drought...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Colorado is experiencing a pediatric mental health “state of emergency,” experts say. | Evan Semón for Chalkbeat Six months after declaring a pediatric mental health “state of emergency,” a coalition including the statewide teachers union and Children’s Hospital...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Aurora will pay $15 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after he was dosed with ketamine during an encounter with Aurora police and paramedics in 2019. The settlement amount is likely the...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Twenty-three years after the International Space Station launched, Jessica Watkins, a Lafayette native, will become the first Black woman to stay on the space station for a long-duration mission.NASA announced Tuesday that Watkins will fly to the space station as a...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
On Nov. 18, 2020, Colorado was four days away from hitting its highest average of new daily cases of the pandemic, a record that still stands a year later. On that day, there were 165 active outbreaks in the state’s K-12 schools, infecting 600 students with...
