Ten years ago, an anonymous benefactor approached the Colorado Water Trust intent on providing it with an interesting gift: a reservoir high in the forests of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area in…
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Farms and farmers markets support food-insecure families. Can these initiatives meet growing demands?
PUEBLO — Urban farmer Perdita Butler was ready to harvest her bok choy and fresh, crunchy kohlrabi outside her 1940s stucco home in Pueblo. It was early spring, and the nymph grasshoppers…
Xcel may shut off power more often to avoid wildfires. Regulators have 8 questions about how that might work.
An inquiry by state regulators into Xcel Energy’s April “public safety” electricity outage — which created chaos in parts of the Front Range — has yielded a list of potential steps utilities…
Preemptive Boulder County power outage caused chaos during wind storm, Xcel customers testify
Xcel Energy’s “public safety outage,” which began April 6, left people bundled up in chilly homes, jails and emergency services in the dark, restaurants scrambling to save perishable ingredients, a pharmaceutical-maker losing…
Boulder County: Xcel gave inadequate notice before outages left 55,000 without power
Xcel Energy gave inadequate notice to the Boulder County Office of Disaster Management of a massive pre-planned power outage over the weekend that shut down electricity to more than 55,000 customers along…
Adams County’s oil and gas rules are among Colorado’s strictest — and the industry is still rapidly growing
When Keith Huck, an Adams County senior oil and gas inspector, walks onto a well pad he looks, listens and sniffs. There is a lot to keep his eyes, ears and nose…