By Mike Soraghan
Mountain goats cavort on Mount Evans west of Denver. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to sell parcels of its land on the mountain’s flanks.
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Washington — For years, selling off some of the U.S. government’s vast land holdings has been a goal of many Western conservatives. But now it’s become the […]
By Karen E. Crummy
Fed up with the current state of national politics, a bipartisan, independent political organization named Unity08 launched nationwide Tuesday, vowing to offer voters an alternative ticket in the next presidential race.
The group said it intends to offer a split ticket, with one Democrat and one Republican or an independent. Unity08 […]
By John Aloysius Farrell and Mike Soraghan
A video provided by the Hamourabi human rights group shows covered bodies, which Hamourabi says are of a family shot dead in their home in Haditha, in western Anbar province, Iraq, in November.
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Washington — An attorney for one of three Marine officers relieved of duty following reports of […]
By Anne C. Mulkern
Washington — Focus on the Family Action today used newspaper ads to attack Sen. Ken Salazar and 15 other lawmakers who don’t support a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
The Colorado Springs conservative group’s ads target at least one senator in each of 13 states.
By David Olinger
La Junta – In a federally protected grassland, paleontologist Bruce Schumacher worries about the future of a hillside where he is unearthing bones of the largest dinosaur species that ever lived.
To the west, 83-year-old rancher Edith Hall wonders if Army tank tracks will run across the Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts behind […]
By Nancy Lofholm
Grand Junction - In a scramble reminiscent of the oil-shale boom a quarter century ago, would-be shale developers are promoting plans to bake, microwave, gasify and dig up the rock-locked oil under western Colorado and parts of Utah and Wyoming.
Members of the Senate Energy Committee are coming west today and […]
By John Ingold
Boulder - A group of anti-war activists is pushing the City Council to become the first in the state to pass a resolution urging U.S. troops be brought home from Iraq.
By Jeffrey Leib
Al Myers, left, assistant federal security director for screening at DIA, and Patrick Ahlstrom, the airport’s federal security director, stand at a new machine that tests for explosives residue.
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Be prepared to hold on to your skirts.
Federal officials have installed explosives trace detection machines at Denver International Airport to […]
By Mike Soraghan
Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Washington — As families head to their national parks this summer, they’ll be paying more and getting less from a Park Service that has been squeezed by flat budgets and rising costs.
Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park raised its visitor fee by $5 in 2005 and has […]
By Joey Bunch
Rangely - National attention is a stranger in these parts, so word that a hometown soldier was relieved of duty amid an investigation into an Iraqi massacre raced through town over the weekend.
“I can’t make myself believe he had anything to do with it,” Martha Wayne said Sunday morning. “Stuff like […]
By Kirk Mitchell, John Aloysius Farrell, Mike Soraghan and Joey Bunch
The Colorado Marine officer relieved of command after his unit was implicated in the deaths of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians in November is not necessarily suspected of participating directly in the killings, people familiar with the situation said.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. […]
Washington — In 1783, a mob of Revolutionary War soldiers, demanding back pay, marched on Philadelphia and laid siege to the Continental Congress.
Fearful members of Congress, knowing full well the considerable martial skills and rebellious zeal of the troops, urged Pennsylvania authorities to call out the state militia.
But the Pennsylvanians sided with the soldiers, […]
By Mike Soraghan
Washington — Federal officials say they there’s no reason to hold up work on a U.S. Forest Service permit for a huge resort development at Wolf Creek ski area in southwest Colorado, despite a request by Sen. Ken Salazar that they do so.
By Mike Soraghan
Washington — Dirk Kempthorne was sworn in as Interior secretary Friday, replacing Coloradan Gale Norton after overcoming limited Democratic opposition to his confirmation in the Senate.
Kempthorne, who has made it clear he wants to re-tool the Endangered Species Act, was confirmed on a voice vote Friday after an 85-8 procedural vote.
By Anne C. Mulkern
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., talks to reporters after Thursday’s Senate vote on immigration. Behind him, from left: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.; Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
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Washington — The U.S. Senate voted 62-36 to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws Thursday, bolstering border security, […]