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Celebrating safety net health centers serving 1 in 7 Coloradans
Click play to listen to this article. (Colorado News Connection) Monday, Salud Family Health Fort Collins staff were giving away bags filled with fruits and vegetables at a pop-up farmer's market for National Health Center Week, meant to highlight the essential role Federally Qualified Health Centers play in improving public health.
Is it legal to record conversations in Colorado? What to know about the state's laws
Is it legal to record a conversation if the person you're recording doesn't know? Different states have different laws on the matter. Colorado is one of 37 one-party consent states, according to recordinglaw.com, meaning that only one party to the conversation has to consent to the creation of a recording. That can include your own consent if you are part of the conversation. However, it is illegal to record a conversation you weren't part of unless...
What you'll see on the Colorado ballot this November, what's pending and what didn't make the cut
The deadline for submitting signatures for ballot measures in Colorado was Aug. 5. To qualify for the November ballot, a measure must receive signatures equal to at least 5% of the total votes cast for all Secretary of State candidates in the last election. This year, that's 124,238. Measures that propose changes to the state Constitution must meet those same requirements and receive signatures from at least 2% of the total registered electors in each of Colorado's 35 Senate districts. ...
Suncor sued in federal court by environmental groups seeking hundreds of millions in fines
Colorado environmental groups sued owners of the Suncor refinery in federal court Tuesday seeking a halt to thousands of alleged pollution violations and asking for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The Earthjustice lawsuit for Colorado’s Sierra Club, 350 Colorado and GreenLatinos is the latest in a long...
Colorado once again breaks tourism records with 31% increase in travelers in the last decade
The Colorado tourism industry is still on a tear. Since 2010 — minus the global meltdown in travel during the pandemic years — Colorado has hosted record numbers of visitors leaving record-setting amounts of cash in their wake. A total of 93.3 million travelers in Colorado spent $28.3...
Colorado, Get Ready to Lose Over an Hour of Daylight This Month
Hands down one of the best parts of summers in Northern Colorado is the amount of daylight we have. I like having daylight well into the evening. With fall right around the corner, we're going to start seeing the days get shorter and shorter. It was only a few short...
Update on Western Colorado’s Bucktail Fire
The Bucktail Fire has been burning since Thursday, August 1 five miles northeast of Nucla, Colorado. Multiple agencies have been battling the fire making small progress over the last six days. Western Colorado's Bucktail Fire Stats. The Bucktail Fire has been burning for the last six days. Since the start...
Teacher displaced by Alexander Mountain Fire returns to a "very different" home
As containment of the Alexander Mountain Fire in Colorado climbs closer to 100%, many who were evacuated have been allowed to return to their homes. One of those evacuees, teacher Mike Burkett was worried over the weekend that he might have to start the school year out while he was displaced from his house. But now he won't have to.The fire has destroyed dozens of houses, and Burkett didn't know if his dream home in Larimer County would survive."It's been an emotional week, I can tell you that," Burkett said on Monday. Burkett lives in Loveland's Bartram Park neighborhood, just south...
Eagle County’s wildfire outlook is relatively positive right now, but please be careful
While Front Range firefighters have been battling wildfires on the east side of the Continental Divide, this part of the Western Slope is in pretty good shape right now when it comes to fire danger. Eagle County Director of Emergency Management Birch Barron’s monthly wildfire conditions outlook delivered on Tuesday...