Regional News

Backpack? Check. Lunchbox? Check. Tourniquet? Hmmm

After documenting a more than 300% increase in visitors over the past decade, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing a permit system for hiking the popular Blue Lakes Trail in the San Juan Mountains.

A state water court has granted a pair of applications that will ultimately allocate more water to the Ouray Ice Park

Advocates are asking lawmakers to put a free school meals proposal on the November ballot.

Colorado lawmakers this year came closer to fully funding the state’s schools than at any time since the Great Recession.

Being parents to so many kids on the Western Slope has left the couple with an experience only few get to see in a lifetime.

Conservative lawmakers in 14 states crafted so-called trigger laws that would automatically go into effect in the event a nationwide right to abortion were struck down.

The volunteer scientists will be collecting temperature data across the city as part of a nationwide urban heat mapping project

Conservative-leaning states and nonprofit reproductive health care providers are competing over control of states’ Title X funding for family planning programs.

This would represent the first time the state covered transportation costs for students who want to transfer from low-rated schools to better ones.