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Toasty Temps to end July
SUNDAY: Temperatures will heat up FAST today! Expect wall-to-wall sunshine to round out the weekend. Thanks to dry air overheard, even the mountains will remain storm free today. Expect highs to top out anywhere from the 90s to low 100s across parts of the plains. THIS WEEK: Hot and dry...
Utah and Colorado Red Flag Warnings: High Fire Risk from Dry Fuels and Gusty Winds
Grand Junction, CO – Red Flag Warnings are in effect today across northeastern Utah and much of western Colorado, signaling a high risk of extreme fire behavior due to a combination of dry fuels, gusty winds, and low humidity. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Grand Junction issued the warning early Sunday, indicating that conditions would be critical from noon to 8 p.m. MDT.
Three Colorado Bats Test Positive for Rabies
A viral disease so terrifying that Steven King wrote a horror story about it: Rabies can be deadly in animals and humans and it is transferred by either a bite or a scratch. Rabid animals can range from coyotes to raccoons, cats, dogs, and more. With how deadly the virus...
Year-round gardening: Colorado's harvest season is here
It has been said, “The heat of August produces nature’s candy. There’s nothing tastier than a vine-ripened August tomato.”. Whoever said it, boy, did they ever get that right. Let the harvest begin! Now is the time to look around and appreciate all of your hard work … and then finish up chores.
Hope For The Boreal Toad: Conservation Efforts In Colorado
Colorado is home to a wide variety of wildlife and, naturally, some of the species that call the Centennial State home are considered threatened or endangered. Colorado is Home to Seven Endangered or Threatened Amphibians |. As you'll see above, Colorado is home to a total of seven amphibians that...
Colorado Dragon Boat Festival celebrates Asian heritage for 24th year
Drums rang through Sloan's Lake Park Saturday, followed by the chanting of rowers. Off to the side, fumes rose from various Asian food trucks, marking another successful year of the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival — held at the park Saturday and Sunday — celebrated the...
Banner Health Offers New Injection Treatments for Women to Provide Relief From Urine Leakage
Two providers at Banner Health are now offering Bulkamid injections, a new, minimally invasive treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Emilee Sandsmark, MD, and McKenna Li, DO, are two of only a few practitioners in the region offering this innovative procedure. SUI affects one in three women and causes unintentional urine leakage during activities such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, or exercising.
Mishandled bodies, mixed-up remains prompt tougher funeral home regulations
The headlines were the stuff of nightmares. One Colorado funeral home owner let the body of a woman decompose for two years in a hearse parked outside a house he rented, while hoarding the cremated remains of dozens of others inside. Last year, authorities discovered nearly 200 improperly stored bodies at another Colorado funeral home […]
Advocates blast Western Slope counties’ ‘grossly inadequate’ Dolores Canyon conservation plan
A draft proposal released this week by two county governments on Colorado’s Western Slope is drawing criticism from a coalition of conservation groups backing the creation of a new national monument along the Dolores River. Advocates last year unveiled an ambitious proposal to designate a 391,000-acre expanse of public land near the Utah border in […]
Help save a life and donate at the Winter Park blood drive
Grand County residents can help save the lives of those in traumatic accidents by participating in a community blood drive at the Headwaters Center in Winter Park. The drive will be held on Monday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The nonprofit blood donation organization Vitalant has organized the event.
Young people have a chance to take a free mental health first-aid class in Fraser
Mind Springs Health and the H.O.P.E. Fund are working together to bring three free mental health first-aid classes to Grand County. The first class is designated for teens specifically and takes place Monday, July 29, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Grand Park Community Recreation Center. The mental...
Boulder Takes FAA To Court To Close Airport
The City of Boulder, Colorado is taking the FAA to court saying a clause in its grant obligations to the agency is constitutional overreach. The city has already stopped accepting grants with an eye to closing the airport in 2040 when the last obligations reach their 20-year expiry but the FAA says it may never allow the airport to be closed. That’s because three grants, one of them from 65 years ago, were used to buy land for the airport and that triggers a clause that requires the airport to be operated in perpetuity unless the FAA agrees to release Boulder from those obligations.
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