Southwest Colorado miraculously dodging the worst of the La Niña bullet that hit the rest of the state this winter, boasting a comparatively respectable snowpack and ending the resort season with decent conditions

The cooperative statewide effort that resulted in Colorado’s Recent Haze-Reduction plan, which will reduce smog, pollution and acid rain that is clouding much of the state’s iconic landscape

Crews finally getting a handle on the Lower North Fork Blaze, which left three people dead and destroyed dozens of homes on the Front Range

Recent news that girls as young as 6 are increasingly hitting puberty, possibly due to diet and environmental factors, offering a startling harbinger of the future
 

The recent execution-style shooting at a nursing school in Oakland, showing that Columbine copycat crimes persist, nearly 13 years after the fact

 
Tuesday’s mid-day storm that unleashed as many as 12 twisters on the Dallas-Fort Worth area, leaving the cities in a shambles and injuring more than a dozen people