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Reward offered for Maggie Long murder case gone cold in Park County

By Elaine Tassy

· Dec. 4, 2024

Life and Culture

NOCO Holiday Light Trail strings together seasonal attractions throughout the region

By Eden Lane and Kiara DeMare

· Dec. 4, 2024

Key Colorado health leaders warn of ‘unprecedented uncertainty’ in coming months

· Dec. 4, 2024

US closes investigation into E. coli outbreak linked to onions in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders

By The Associated Press

· Dec. 3, 2024

Judge drops criminal charges against gaming officers in Christian Glass death

By Allison Sherry

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A close-up of a pheasant standing in green grass. The game bird is various shades of brown with some light redish feathers around its neck and black tail feathers. It is about the size of a chicken.

You can raise chickens in your backyard in parts of Colorado, but what about pheasants?

Life and Culture

‘Talk Less, Think More,’ advises 104-year-old classical and jazz great

By Andrea Dukakis

Tom Walla, wearing glasses and a black suit coat, stands at a lectern and delivers remarks into a microphone at an event in Brazil.

How a Colorado Mesa University-led team won a $5 million competition with car batteries and a lot of favors

Denver voted for high-quality mental and addiction care, but millions have gone to unlicensed providers with limited transparency

Humans cause most of Colorado’s wildfires, but a lack of investigative resources means few are held responsible

By Ben Markus and Veronica Penney

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ERPO in 8 charts: What we learned from reading hundreds of ‘red flag’ cases in Colorado

By Andrew Kenney

The new park "cap" over I-70 in Elyria Swansea. Nov. 30, 2022.

Colorado built a park over I-70 to contain pollution. Is the air safe to breathe?

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‘There’s winners and losers’: Colorado is hoping to reform mental health, but a failed overhaul in 2014 shows how political connections maintain the status quo

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