(Green River, UT) — A 13-year-old Colorado girl is safe after being found in Utah Wednesday. Police in Aurora, Colorado had issued an AMBER Alert for the girl Tuesday, saying she may have been kidnapped or lured from her home. Troopers with the Utah Highway Patrol spotted the suspect’s vehicle […]
DENVER (AP) — A Utah-based mobile home park operator reached a settlement agreement last week with the state of Colorado to repay Denver-area residents about $150,000 in wrongly withheld security deposits, arbitrary fees and improperly charged attorneys fees. The Colorado Sun reports that seven Colorado parks operated by Kingsley Management […]
DENVER (AP) — Two wildlife conservation groups say they intend to file a lawsuit contending that several federal agencies are relying on an outdated plan to save a rare bird found only in Colorado and Utah. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project made the announcement Wednesday. […]
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Six states in the U.S. West that rely on the Colorado River have rebuked a plan to build an underground pipeline to transport billions of gallons of water to Utah. In a joint letter Tuesday, water officials from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — Utah search and rescue crews have found the body of a 44-year-old Colorado camper who was missing for several weeks. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Daggett County Sheriff Erik Bailey said Leonard Corby “Corb” Fisher was found Monday about 2.5 miles […]
DENVER (AP) — Authorities say only one of two missing Colorado snowmobile riders was found alive after the men were stranded inside a remote area of Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument. The Denver Post reported the 65-year-old who was rescued and the 58-year-old who did not survive were located Saturday. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawyer says a Utah woman who fought criminal charges after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home has taken a plea deal to avoid the risk of having to register as a sex offender if convicted. Tilli Buchanan’s decision Tuesday brings an […]
FRISCO, Colo. (AP) — Colorado remains the country’s most dangerous state for avalanches. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says the number of avalanche deaths in Colorado since 1950 has far surpassed that of any other state, and last winter was no different. Colorado has had 287 avalanche deaths since the […]
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — As competition among ski companies heats up, information about what they pay to use public land is diminishing. The Aspen Times reports that the U.S. Forest Service reversed its policy on releasing permit fees paid by individual ski areas after Vail Resorts objected. Vail and others […]
DENVER (AP) — The early season snowstorms that hit the Rocky Mountain region this fall have boosted snowpack levels between two and three times the average. A U.S. Department of Agriculture report shows snow water equivalent above 150% and 200% of average throughout Idaho, northern Colorado and western Montana. Those […]
