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FILE – Hikers look up at a fast moving storm as it makes its way through Zion National Park outside of Springdale, Utah, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)

A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight

May 11, 2025 at 12:14 p.m.

Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land will generate revenue and ease growth pressures in booming Western cities.

Michael Otenbaker and Joseph Burgoyne snowshoe into a backcountry ski area Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Frisco, Colo. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Colorado avalanche experts worry Trump budget cuts will hinder life-saving forecasts

March 6, 2025 at 1:14 p.m.

“We save lives and there are people alive today because of the work we do,” said Doug Chabot, who directed the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center in Montana.

FILE – In this Feb. 2021, file photo released by California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a protected gray wolf (OR-93), seen near Yosemite, Calif., shared by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Biden on Thursday finalized rules for protecting imperiled species that reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

March 28, 2024 at 2:27 p.m.

The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump.

Paramedic Peter Cichuniec attends his arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Cichuniec, the senior medical responder on the scene during the altercation with Elijah McClain, faces a yearslong prison sentence when he is expected to be sentenced on Friday, March 1, 2024. A jury found him guilty in December for his involvement in the 2019 death of McClain following an overdose of a powerful sedative. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Paramedic convictions in Elijah McClain’s death spur changes for patients in police custody

March 1, 2024 at 8:05 a.m.

As one of the paramedics faces sentencing Friday at a hearing in which McClain’s mother could speak about her son’s death, the case has sent shock waves through the ranks...

A mechanized shovel loads a haul truck that can carry up to 250 tons of coal at the Spring Creek coal mine, April 4, 2013, near Decker, Mont. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, a U.S. appeals court struck down a judge’s 2022 order that imposed a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Court lifts federal coal sales moratorium in a setback for Dems and environmentalists

February 21, 2024 at 4:56 p.m.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands in a move that could open the door to future coal sales from vast,...

Fremont County deputies guard the road leading to the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo. Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Authorities said Thursday they were investigating the improper storage of human remains at a southern Colorado funeral home that performs “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)

Investigators found stacked bodies and maggots at neglected Colorado funeral home, FBI agent says

January 12, 2024 at 8:27 a.m.

Prosecutors also revealed text messages sent between the funeral home’s owners showing they were under growing financial pressures and had fears that they would be caught for mishandling the bodies.

A Canada lynx heads into the Rio Grande National Forest near Creede, Colo., April 19, 2005. Federal officials on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, proposed a $30 million recovery plan for Canada lynx in a bid to help the snow-dependent wild cat species that scientists say could be wiped out in parts of the contiguous U.S. by the end of the century. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

U.S. proposes plan to help the snow-dependent Canada lynx before warming shrinks its habitat

December 1, 2023 at 7:25 p.m.

U.S. officials proposed a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx on Friday in a bid to help the snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in...

Paramedics Jeremy Cooper, left, and Peter Cichuniec at an arraignment in Adams County District Court at the Adams County Justice Center January 20, 2023. The two men are charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. (Photo by Andy Cross / The Denver Post)

Final trial over Elijah McClain’s death to spotlight Aurora paramedics’ role

November 27, 2023 at 10:57 a.m.

The final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in Aurora is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory, with paramedics, not...

Aurora police Officer Nathan Woodyard, center, answers questions from Judge Mark Warner standing next to lawyers Andrew Ho, left, and Megan Downing, right, during an arraignment in Adams County district court at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton on Jan. 20, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Jury breaks for weekend in trial of Aurora police officer who used neck hold on Elijah McClain

November 3, 2023 at 5:24 p.m.

Jurors began deliberations Friday in the case of a Colorado police officer who prosecutors say is guilty of manslaughter after stopping Elijah McClain as he walked home from the store...

A sign covers the broken back window of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from the Colorado funeral home. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Evidence suggests families received fake ashes from Colorado funeral home where 189 bodies were found

October 20, 2023 at 11:06 a.m.

A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by...

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