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‘We run towards problems, not away from them.’ As COVID-19 closes...

In early March, Dr. Jason Hogan realized what was about to happen: The new coronavirus had infiltrated his community, and it was going to...

Government watchdog: Trump hasn’t justified BLM move to Colorado Of 179...

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is losing at least half of the employees designated to move to Grand Junction as part...

U.S. senators attempt to thwart planned BLM move A Senate subcommittee...

WASHINGTON — Congress and the Trump administration butted heads Tuesday over the plan to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado. The U.S....

Lawmakers grill Trump official on plan to shift BLM HQ to...

WASHINGTON — The head of the Bureau of Land Management today defended the Trump administration’s plans to close the agency’s Washington, D.C., office and...

In Colorado’s conservative corners, a push for gun control

On a brisk Saturday afternoon in late March, hundreds of protestors gathered in a grassy field at Lincoln Park in Grand Junction, Colorado, a...

8 takeaways from Colorado’s first U.S. Senate debate Saturday night

Three of the five candidates who will be on Colorado’s ballot for U.S. Senate sparred during an at-times entertaining debate in Grand Junction Saturday...

Colorado Springs drops hundreds of panhandling charges

Colorado Springs is dropping 375 panhandling-related cases, according to a letter City Attorney Wynetta Massey sent to the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado on...

Denver police stop enforcing panhandling ordinance

Denver police will no longer ticket and arrest people for panhandling – at least until City Council rewrites Denver's rules to comply with the...

Court shoots down Grand Junction panhandling ordinance

Federal district judge Christine Arguello on Wednesday put an end to Grand Junction’s panhandling ordinance, ruling the law violates the First Amendment right to...

Newsmaker Q&A: Rep. Dan Thurlow, voting his conscience and taking the...

Freshman lawmaker Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Republican from Grand Junction, has been making a lot of headlines lately for voting with Democrats. He ran...
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