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The Biden administration announced last week that it's giving $502 million in loans and grants to rural communities and telecommunications companies to expand high-speed internet access. The list of grantees includes projects in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.

Changing irrigation methods is something more and more Western Slope producers are doing, from small to large. With help from federal funding, they’re able to apply less water to grow their crops and make their land more resilient to drought.

Water is again flowing through faucets in the Western Slope town of Paonia.Town administrator Ken Knight told residents at a meeting Tuesday evening…

When Paonia resident Jon Howard went turn on the dishwasher last Friday morning, there was no water to clean the dishes.Same thing when he went to the…

Colorado agriculture officials are taking steps to make industrial hemp -- marijuana’s agrarian cousin -- more mainstream. They’ve certified three hemp…

The last fully operational coal mine in the western part of the state announced layoffs Thursday. The West Elk Mine outside of Paonia is owned by Arch...

To get to Colorado's North Fork Valley, you drive along the area's namesake, the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Rounding a corner northeast of Paonia,…

A coal mine in Delta County announced Wednesday it is laying off 150 workers, over 40 percent of its workforce. The Bowie #2 mine layoffs follow the…

For the first time in the 2014 season, West Nile infected mosquitoes have been found in 5 Colorado counties.Adams, Boulder, Delta, Mesa and Weld counties…