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Cortez council considers charging stations for electric cars

A representative from an alternative energy nonprofit wants to bring electric vehicles to Cortez. Laurie Dickson, executive director of the Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency, gave a...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Driver unhurt after running off Colorado 145 in merge lane

A two-vehicle accident on Friday afternoon ended with an SUV veering into a field off Colorado Highway 145. According to Colorado State Patrol’s preliminary investigation at the scene, the incident...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores Parks Committee brainstorms with community members

The newly formed Dolores Parks Committee met for a work session on Tuesday evening to discuss planning for a new playground. According to committee member Mike Riley, the work session is held in...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Interior boss Zinke halts oil and gas lease sale near Chaco

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is putting the brakes on an upcoming oil and gas lease sale after hearing concerns from American Indian tribal leaders and others about...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez school board meets with state representative

The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School Board met Tuesday with Randy Black, Colorado Association of School Boards director of member relations, to do some strategic planning work. One of the main focuses...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez man arrested on suspicion of dealing meth

A man suspected of dealing meth was arrested in Cortez on Sunday, Feb. 25, in one of six drug-related incidents reported in one week. According to an incident report by Cortez patrol officer...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Oil was central in decision to shrink Bears Ears monument, emails show

By Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman New York Times WASHINGTON – Even before President Donald Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as National...

DATE: March 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ex-interior officials: Zinke’s proposed overhaul unnecessary

DENVER – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s plan for a major realignment to put more of his department’s decision-makers in the field has a fundamental flaw in the eyes of some who spent their...

DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mystery surrounds Estebanico, black explorer of U.S. Southwest

ALBUQUERQUE – A black Moroccan slave who explored present-day Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with Spanish conquistadors is credited with being the first person of African descent to enter the...

DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Satanic Temple sues Arizona city to lead city council prayer

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A group that invokes the name Satan as a metaphor for opposing religious tyranny has sued the well-off Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, accusing officials of discrimination after...

DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘Zombie trailers’ haunt a budding tourist town

A dead potted plant dangles from the ceiling of a derelict trailer in Naturita, a former uranium-mining town in western Colorado, its spindly tendrils reaching toward a large broken window. It is...

DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

BLM speeds ahead on Grand Staircase-Escalante plans

Federal authorities at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are moving forward to create new plans for managing the area, despite several legal challenges to the monument’s...

DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

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