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Southwest Colorado to receive infant supplies from FEMA

Families in La Plata, Archuleta and Montezuma counties soon will have increased access to diapers, wipes and formula. Buyers depleted store inventories of infant supplies at the beginning of the...

DATE: April 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hundreds gather at Colorado Capitol to protest coronavirus stay-at-home order

Hundreds of people gathered outside of the Colorado Capitol on Sunday afternoon in protest of the state’s stay-at-home order aimed at preventing the new coronavirus from spreading out of control....

DATE: April 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Internet service in western Colorado was so terrible that towns and counties built their own telecom

Internet outages became a distant memory this month as a good chunk of western Colorado turned on a new broadband system. But this wasn’t built by a typical telecom. It took a band of local...

DATE: April 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Scattered showers forecast through Wednesday in Southwest Colorado

Scattered rain showers are expected in Southwest Colorado Sunday evening through Wednesday, with the best chance to see rain coming Tuesday. The moisture will fall as scattered snowfall in the high...

DATE: April 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Southern Ute Indian Tribe says U.S. Treasury Dept. leaked confidential information

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe is demanding an investigation into the U.S. Treasury Department after the tribe said the department leaked confidential tribal information given to it as part of an...

DATE: April 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Upper Pine tests entire first-responder crew for exposure to COVID-19

Antibodies, the blood proteins that fight viruses, may be a positive sign for people who have contracted the novel coronavirus. No one has antibodies to fight the new coronavirus until they are...

DATE: April 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hospital executives say region is ready in case of a COVID-19 surge

Emergency operators and government officials predicted a surge, when COVID-19 cases would outpace health care capacity, around April 24 in Colorado. Friday, regional health care executives said...

DATE: April 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, is domestic violence on the rise?

FARMINGTON – During the heightened anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic, what happens if one’s home has never been a safe place? Advocates worry survivors and possible victims of domestic violence...

DATE: April 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

PPP provides relief for some small businesses, until the money ran dry

“It was a godsend.” That was Durango Harley-Davidson owner Trevor Bird’s reaction to being funded through the Paycheck Protection Program, the $349 billion loan program put in place by the federal...

DATE: April 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Warming makes U.S. West megadrought worst in modern age, study says

KENSINGTON, Maryland – A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new...

DATE: April 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Lawmakers walk line between public health and economic well-being

Questions about when to reopen the economy are being raised as the Small Business Administration announced Thursday it has run out of money to fund a popular emergency loan program. Senate...

DATE: April 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Farmers to get full supply from McPhee Reservoir

McPhee Reservoir is expected to provide a full irrigation supply, but a boating release below the dam is not expected, water officials report. Dolores Basin snowpack was at 96% of average April 9,...

DATE: April 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

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