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A UFO at Red Rocks? Employees say disc-shaped object appeared in sky, then vanished
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A UFO at Red Rocks? Employees say disc-shaped object appeared in sky, then vanished

By Chris Eberhart | Fox News A dozen employees said they watched a "large, disc-shaped craft" hover above a Colorado concert venue and then vanish.  "What's even crazier is that as soon as we all started noticing it and stopped what we were doing to pay attention to it, the craft tipped at an angle and slowly started moving belly-first to the east," an employee reported to the National UFO Reporting Center about the June 5 sighting at the Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison. "Then it started fading away until it was invisible. It didn't shoot off into the distance. It simply dissolved into the ether. We all watched it vanish." The "silent" hovering object was long – about the size of a "three-story office building" – with three levels of windows...
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56 Colorado counties with tax-exempt federal lands getting $48M, that’s $2 per acre
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The Center Square, State

56 Colorado counties with tax-exempt federal lands getting $48M, that’s $2 per acre

By Joe Mueller  | The Center Square Fifty-six counties in Colorado will receive $47.8 million as payment for approximately 24 million acres of tax-exempt federal lands within the state, or about $2.00 per acre. The funding, called “Payments in Lieu of Taxes,” was created in 1976 and rewritten and amended in 1982. The money paid to help local governments offset losses in property taxes for the nontaxable federal lands within their boundaries. A formula is used to calculate the payments. Population, revenue-sharing payments and the amount of federal land within the county are taken into account. “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” are made in addition to other federal funds paid for oil and gas leasing, livestock grazing, and timber harvesting, according to the U.S. Department of the Interi...
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With wolf pup(s) on the ground, state’s wildlife director insists on non-lethal response to livestock killings
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With wolf pup(s) on the ground, state’s wildlife director insists on non-lethal response to livestock killings

By Thelma Grimes | Colorado Politics The chief of Colorado Parks & Wildlife insisted that "non-lethal" means of managing wolves that kill livestock is crucial especially now that the two wolves brought to Colorado have a pup.  "And we believe that there are more pups within the recently named pack," Jeff Davis said in a round of letters in June with Sen. Janice Rich, who questioned whether he is taking the concerns of citizens who are being “impacted by wolf depredation seriously.” "Again," Davis said, "deployment of non-lethal actions will be critical in avoiding and minimizing future interactions between wolves and livestock as well as people." The round of letters confirmed the familiar points of contention between Davis and state policymakers who have criticized th...
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Packing for Paris: These Coloradans are headed to the 2024 Olympics, Paralympics
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DENVER7, State

Packing for Paris: These Coloradans are headed to the 2024 Olympics, Paralympics

By Stephanie Butzer | Denver 7 News Athletes all over Colorado have qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics and will compete on that world stage this summer. The Olympics begin July 26 with an opening ceremony and will continue through Aug. 11. The Paralympics will start Aug. 28 and run through Sept. 8. The Colorado athletes' specialties include volleyball, track and field, climbing, rowing, swimming and more. Team USA has a map of the United States on its website showing the hometowns of athletes who have currently qualified for the Games. Click here and scroll down to explore more of the map. Our list in this story contains those athletes, plus the ones who train here long-term, went to school here, or have Colorado listed as their hometown. ...
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Firefighters who responded on 9/11 escort piece of twin towers to new Fort Collins memorial
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Firefighters who responded on 9/11 escort piece of twin towers to new Fort Collins memorial

By Dillon Thomas | CBS Colorado A piece of American history has been permanently installed in Fort Collins, as Poudre Fire Station #3 cemented a piece of the twin towers into the park behind their fire station. The piece of the twin towers was officially unveiled at a ceremony in Fort Collins on Monday afternoon. The piece of steel, which stands several feet tall, serves as a reminder to the Northern Colorado community of what the U.S. has been through, and the sacrifices many paid for freedom. "We just don't want people to forget," said Jim Durkin, a former firefighter who responded to ground zero. Durkin, Jim Salisbury and Lin Lindholm are just three of the many now-retired Poudre Fire employees who helped dig for survivors in 2001. The same group of men were those who helped...
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Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country
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Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Colorado’s outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle is now the worst in the country, with more cases in the past month than any other state, according to the latest state and federal data. As of Monday evening, Colorado had identified 26 herds with cases of avian influenza. Of those, 22 were identified within the past month and the herds are still in quarantine. Four other cases were identified earlier and quarantines have since been lifted. All affected herds are in the northeastern part of the state. The rapid and still largely mysterious spread in Colorado — hardly a leading dairy state — contributes to growing concerns that U.S. health authorities are not doing enough to contain the virus. While the threat currently to humans is ge...
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Study: Fentanyl-related deaths cost Colorado estimated $16 billion last year
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Study: Fentanyl-related deaths cost Colorado estimated $16 billion last year

By Noah Festenstein | Colorado Politics It only takes 2 milligrams of fentanyl to be fatal. A record 425.6 kilograms of fentanyl — enough to kill the state’s population between 16* and 26 times over, depending on the purity of the drugs — was seized in Colorado in 2023 by the Drug Enforcement Administration Rocky Mountain Field Division. That year, Colorado saw a staggering $16 billion in costs associated with fentanyl-related overdose deaths, according to a recent study by the Common Sense Institute. “Colorado’s fentanyl problem is growing, and it is increasingly costly,” the group said. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Denver Airport preparing for busiest Independence Day travel week on record
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Denver Airport preparing for busiest Independence Day travel week on record

By Brian Sherrod | CBS Colorado The Transportation Security Administration tells CBS Colorado they are expecting the 4th of July  holiday week to be the busiest on record for them. The TSA tells CBS Colorado on June 30 security workers screened more than 86,000 people at the Denver International Airport.  That was their fourth busiest day. CBS Colorado First Alert Traffic Tracker Reporter Brian Sherrod took a tour with the TSA to show how the agency hopes to get travelers to the lines faster. The TSA is using face recognition machines. The machines scan your government ID for basic information including your name and age and it reveals your boarding information in 10 seconds. The TSA tells CBS Colorado the airport is one of the first across the country that utilizes this te...
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Colorado utility bills may increase 10% over four years to pay for wildfire mitigation
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State, The Center Square

Colorado utility bills may increase 10% over four years to pay for wildfire mitigation

By By Joe Mueller | The Center Square Monthly Xcel Energy bills will increase approximately 10% or more by 2028 to pay for a wildfire mitigation plan submitted to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. The utility emphasized its primary focus is safety for both the communities it serves and its customers in a media release announcing the submission. If the agency approves the plan, residential bills will increase through incremental bi-annual amounts until reaching approximately $8.88 a month by Jan. 1, 2028. “Our goal is to ensure that no catastrophic wildfire is started by Xcel Energy assets,” Bob Frenzel, president and chief executive officer of Xcel Energy, said in a statement. “And, while we’ve made significant wildfire safety progress in Colorado and achieved key goals, t...
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Gaines: Are your ‘damn roads’ fixed yet?  Have they turned a single shovel?
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Gaines: Are your ‘damn roads’ fixed yet?  Have they turned a single shovel?

By Cory Gaines | Guest Columnist, Colorado Accountability Project Back in 2021, our governor, upon passage of SB 21-260 proclaimed that we'd finally fix our "damn roads". While driving to Denver the other day and having my teeth rattle in my head on a rough section of road (my friend Jerry Sonnenberg has said you better wear your spurs to hang on), I thought back wistfully to those claims.  Far from being a measure that collected money to actually fix the surfaces our cars and commerce move on, the bill itself created numerous enterprises only some of which actually work to fix the roads. I got curious for an update on how much was collected so far and where it's gone, so I asked around.  Today's posts will be the results of that digging.   This first post w...
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