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…
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Big city water buy-ups in the Lower Arkansas Valley are raising alarms as age-old battles erupt again
Story first appeared in: OLNEY SPRINGS — From satellite view, the land north of the Arkansas River is a seemingly random checkerboard of vital green and desperate brown, quickly fading from a…
Facing power plant and coal mine closures, Moffat County wants $118 million in help from the company that owns them
Faced with a “near-existential threat” as a coal-fired power plant and the mines that feed it close, Moffat County and the City of Craig, backed by state officials, want Colorado utility regulators…
Only a nuclear reactor can make Pueblo “whole” after Xcel Energy closes last coal-fired plant, local group says
PUEBLO — The only way Pueblo can be “made whole” after the closure of Xcel Energy’s massive, coal-fired Comanche Station is for the utility to replace it with an advanced nuclear power…