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A critical power structure near Bluff looks like a sinking Leaning Tower of Pisa after waves of floods have inundated southeast Utah over the past week. Now, as the area braces for another rise in the San Juan River, Bluff Mayor Josh Ewing is worried that a new surge could cause the damaged power pole to collapse. If it does, he said, hundreds of families in Navajo Nation communities to the south could lose power and Bluff could lose cell service for “a very long time.” Rains roared down washes in southeast Utah on Sunday and Monday, flooding Bluff’s post...

Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a wide swath of the Southwest on Sunday as weary residents in the normally arid region dealt with another massive drenching. Residents of Pagosa Springs, a southwestern Colorado town of more than 2,000 in the Rockies located near ski resorts and known for its hot springs, were bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels. Town officials warned in a Facebook post of potentially 'catastrophic flooding' as the San Juan River was forecast to crest at more than 20 feet late on Sunday night. 'To put the forecast into...

Three months after a Denver District Court judge ordered Secretary of State Jena Griswold's Office to ask a consulting agency if it has a missing $25,000 report, the consultant has released a set of demands. Susan Heinzeroth with SageRiver Consulting wants, among other things, protection from "disparagement." Former employees of Griswold told CBS Colorado that the report is highly critical of Griswold, and it appears Heinzeroth is worried about retaliation. "I think they don't want to produce it. Nobody wants to produce it. It's just become this shell game of where is this report," says Suzanne Taheri. ... Eight months...

Precipitation monitors recorded more than seven times normal rainfall in parts of southeastern Utah over the past month, driving a dramatic rise in Lake Powell and transforming the San Juan River. ... SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A month of extraordinary rainfall across southeastern Utah has sent water pouring into Lake Powell, lifting the reservoir's elevation by nearly 10 feet and turning the normally placid San Juan River into a raging torrent. Precipitation monitors in Bluff and at the Hans Flat Ranger Station tell the story. While southwestern and northern Utah received about twice their normal precipitation over the last...

Portable food carts are an accepted fact of life in many of our major cities, and even in some small towns. For years, in the Alaska town of Talkeetna, a regular fixture on that small touristy town's main drag was the halibut taco cart. The halibut were cooked using a propane tank under the cart — until the tank exploded, breaking windows and causing damage all up and down the street. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. But if it's a halibut taco you want now in Talkeetna, you're out of luck. Here's the thing: The Talkeetna halibut taco cart...

Especially the neurologically vulnerable .... A March 2026 publication by The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) confirms that Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) has injected “more than 18,000” pediatric patients under “deep sedation or general anesthesia” who were undergoing surgery or other medical procedures. The revelation comes after this website reported yesterday that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has injected 2,054 children with flu vaccines under anesthesia. ... The AAP News piece behind a $35 paywall was written by Drs. Caroline A. Pasquariello and Kim M. Strupp, both anesthesiologists. Their article admits that under anesthesia or sedation, “[a]dditional vaccinations are administered …...

(The Center Square) - Colorado voters will decide in less than two weeks whether to ban surgeries that change the genders of minors. If Proposition 135 passes on Nov. 3, doctors across the state will be prohibited from performing procedures to alter minors’ sex characteristics. Prop. 135’s description says a “Yes” vote would prohibit surgeries on minors that would “alter their biological sex characteristics as a treatment in response to a minor’s perception of sex or gender, and prohibits the use of government funds or health insurance to pay for the surgeries.” The bluebook ballot guide provided by the Colorado...

A disaster emergency has been declared by Gov. Jared Polis over flooding in La Plata, Archuleta, Montezuma, Dolores, Hinsdale, San Miguel, Ouray, San Juan, Mineral, Alamosa, and Rio Grande counties. A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for residents along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo and Piedra rivers in Archuleta County. All low-lying and flood-prone areas along the rivers are under mandatory evacuation, according to the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office and the town of Pagosa Springs. Two evacuation centers have been opened by the Red Cross of Western Colorado: .... All schools in the Archuleta School District will be...

Four families are demanding answers from Jeffco Public Schools after their daughters lost spots on the JV squad ... Four parents of Dakota Ridge High School athletes are demanding answers from Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado after they said a transgender player was allowed to participate on the girls’ junior varsity volleyball team while eight girls were cut from the roster. ... The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said Jeffco Public Schools had 10 days to voluntarily resolve alleged Title IX violations or face enforcement action. .... Oct. 2, Department of Education Press Secretary Savannah Newhouse said, "Just...

Former judicial discipline director Christopher Gregory triggers panic across the judiciary after filing confidential misconduct records revealing widespread corruption and multi-million dollar hush-money cover-ups.Link to ChatGPT Video Transcript SummarySummary: Alleged Judicial Corruption in ColoradoThe video alleges a long-running corruption scandal involving the Colorado Supreme Court, state judicial officials, and the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline. Its central claim is that senior officials concealed judicial misconduct, arranged a multimillion-dollar agreement with a former court administrator, and retaliated against an internal whistleblower.1. The alleged $2.75 million hush-money agreementMindy Macias, a former chief of staff for Colorado's judicial branch, was reportedly facing termination...

Students at the University of Colorado are in for some rocky news. Boulder, the beautiful college town the CU calls home, is one of the most dangerous in America, according to a new study. One the other hand, the Gators aren’t as perilous as they look. Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, is one of the safest college towns. The study from Lesson Maker Pro evaluated 174 college towns — big and small — across seven safety metrics, tracking crimes from Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) violations and hate crimes to robberies and aggravated assaults. Researchers culled data from...

The Denver Post’s editorial board has come out against Amendment 87, the proposed graduated income tax ballot measure. In an Oct. 11 editorial, the board argued that extracting $2.7 billion in a single year from the state’s largest businesses would “do more harm than good.” While the board took exception to some opponents’ claims, such as the measure’s impact on businesses under $500,000 in taxable profit and on deductions for seniors and veterans, it concluded that the risk to Colorado’s largest employers outweighs the benefits. Citing conversations with Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce president J.J. Ament,...

A Denver judge has appointed a court receiver for the 455-unit X Denver apartment complex near Coors Field after no representatives of X Denver appeared at a hearing. Judge Heidi Kutcher appointed Trigild, a distressed real estate firm, as receiver for the tower at 3100 Inca St. following a hearing Friday that no representatives of X Denver attended. The appointment follows Mack Real Estate Group's request for a receiver, as detailed by BusinessDen. The $170 million loan backing X Denver was originated by Mack Real Estate Group in 2022 and went into default after reaching its maturity date in January...

On Monday, August 24th, 2026, an deputy of the Eagle County Sheriffs Department shot and stopped a charging cinnamon color phase black bear near the River Run Apartment Complex. The bear was an adult with two cubs.From the video, it appears the deputy drew and fired the first shot in less than a second, with three followup shots following in fractions of a second after that. The Eagle County Sheriff’s Office released the body camera video on September 8th, 2026The video shows officers dealing with a difficult situation: An adult bear with two cubs and dozens of onlookers, was very...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is making changes to how it decides whether or not to kill wolves that are continually attacking livestock after threats arise.. Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, that it will be taking a more conservative approach to deciding whether or not to kill wolves that are repeatedly attacking livestock — citing rising concerns over how potential disease, wolf pup survival, mortality rates and uncertainty around future releases could impact the nascent population of gray wolves. The management change comes after the state wildlife agency has killed five wolves this year — four between...

Boulder, Colorado, has spent decades wearing a nickname most towns would take as an insult: “The People's Republic of Boulder.” It’s a college town of roughly 100,000 people, where the politics climb about as high as … the elevation. But now Boulder wants to export its “Rocky Mountain High,” and it’s headed to the Supreme Court. At stake before SCOTUS is whether that town gets to set energy policy for the rest of America. That’s the real question in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, no matter how carefully supporters dress it up. In 2018, the City...

Boulder’s climate lawsuit would return the U.S. to the era of the Articles of Confederation. The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday with a case ostensibly about climate change but with much bigger stakes. The real issue in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County is whether states and localities can turn federalism on its head to dictate policy for the rest of the country.Boulder and more than 30 other state and local governments have sued oil and gas producers for alleged damage caused by their global CO2 emissions. Boulder wants compensation for wildfires, the costs for mitigating pest infestations,...

The CIA claims that it never saw the storm coming, but Canadian intelligence sure did. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird landed in Vladivostok, Russia, earlier this month for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and had barely stepped off the plane when he announced that Canada would be pulling its diplomats out of Iran and closing its embassy while kicking all Iranian diplomats out of Canada. At the time, some thought that maybe the minister had a few too many mini vodkas on the ride over. Several days later, when protests and embassy attacks erupted in Islamic nations, and the...

There may be longer races, and there may be more prestigious races, but none require the intestinal fortitude — in the most literal sense — needed to complete the International Taco Bell 50k. The 9th annual edition of the ultra marathon in Denver gets underway this weekend, and it will see runners traversing just over 30 miles, while making pit stops at a minimum of nine of the ten Taco Bell locations along the route where they must order a menu item and finish it. And better yet, it's not sanctioned by the company. They're just out there for the...

10th Circuit Court lifts an injunction barring the filling of the expensive, controversial dam expansion in western Boulder County ... Denver Water can finish its Gross Dam expansion and fill the controversial reservoir in western Boulder County, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, lifting an injunction by a lower court judge and confirming the dam’s permits as sound. The appeals court said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had acted responsibly in issuing construction permits for the $600 million expansion, which is largely complete and will be filled using water rights Denver holds in the Colorado River...