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WATCH LIVE: Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Join the Aspen Music Festival and School for a special recital you can watch LIVE at CPRClassical.org. Aspen livestreams are BACK for their 75th anniversary season. Throughout the summer, experience all the fun and excitement of a free summer music festival concert from the comfort of your own home. Next...
Family pass aimed at skiing 'gems' of Colorado
Amid the summer heat, the trade group representing the majority of Colorado's ski areas wants people to think snow. Colorado Ski Country USA recently listed its multi-mountain family pass for sale. That's the Gems Pass, proudly featuring some of the state's non-mega resorts. Passes for teens ($199) and parents ($325)...
Teachers union, special districts argue against potential compromise on property tax ballot measures
Critics of two ballot measures aimed at reducing Coloradans' property obligations further than what lawmakers enacted this year have begun to pressure policymakers against negotiating with the initiatives' proponents and reaching a compromise. Colorado's biggest teachers union and an association representing special taxing districts are pushing back against a potential...
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...
Big cat hunting ban measure to appear on Colorado ballot
(The Center Square) - Voters will decide in November whether the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats should be banned in Colorado after proponents of a measure turned in enough signatures for it to appear on the ballot. The secretary of state’s office said last week that the backers of Initiative #91 submitted 187,147 petition signatures. The state requires at least 124,238 valid signatures to get a measure on the ballot. ...
Colorado AG weighs formal role as Supreme Court reviews oil-train case
Colorado’s attorney general recently left open the possibility he will take a formal role in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to help block a proposal that would send a massive surge of oil trains along the Colorado River. Attorney General Phil Weiser last week expressed disappointment that the court in June agreed to […]
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...