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Backers say the Colorado Voting Rights Act will protect the state against efforts to scale back civil rights, but election officials fear it could open up new challenges to longstanding voting practices.
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Ed Andrieski/Associated PressA Boulder doctor who specialized in performing abortions late in pregnancy announced recently he was retiring. Now, Dr. Warren Hern is talking about why he closed his clinic more than 50 years after he founded it -- and the state of abortion access in the U.S. -
Courtesy of Casey Fiesler / CU BoulderThe National Science Foundation, which is managed by the federal government, recently canceled funding for hundreds of research projects. One of those programs, designed by a professor at CU, would have used social media to teach young people about how artificial intelligence works. But the grant proposal contained the word 鈥渕isinformation鈥� -- and the professor thinks that鈥檚 why the project was killed.
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The annual Mountain Plover Festival happens this weekend in Karval. The festival celebrates the bird sometimes called the 鈥減rairie ghost." -
The Colorado Economic Development Commission gave its blessing Thursday to a plan by Louisville officials to establish a CHIPS Zone in the city that would encompass the Colorado Technology Center business park and Redtail Ridge. Louisville is now the fourth city in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado with an approved CHIPS Zone designation, joining Longmont, Broomfield and Fort Collins. -
State and local agencies carried out targeted aerial training near Lyons last week to improve communication and tactics for fighting upcoming wildfires. -
Backers want platforms to have to take action when users engage in illegal activity, but Gov. Jared Polis has serious concerns about the policy. -
Colorado is responding to the news of the death of Pope Francis. -
Democratic state lawmakers are advancing a bill that aims to stymie some of the tactics they鈥檝e seen deployed by the Trump administration.
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week ordered all national parks to 鈥渞emain open and accessible.鈥� The directive comes after about 1,000 National Park Service employees were fired. In March, a federal judge ordered them 鈥� and thousands of other laid-off federal workers 鈥� to be reinstated, but the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked that order. -
An uncertain future of new tariffs has the Colorado outdoor industry concerned. New and longtime brands are now preparing for what's next. -
Colorado was long considered a haven for gender-affirming care. But under this Trump administration, hospitals in the state have limited the treatments available for people under 19. Some services have been restored, but trans youth and their families say the state isn鈥檛 the rock they thought it was. -
Environmentalists decried the move, but some in the timber industry say this could boost the economy and prevent fires. -
A new study reveals snow in the Rocky Mountains is contaminated with mercury and other metals, and that pollution has historic causes. -
Much of southern Arizona and New Mexico are expected to see above average potential for wildfire in April.
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