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
 

In this week's issue...

January 25, 2024
Bagging it

State plastic bag ban is in full effect, but enforcement varies

January 26, 2024
Paper chase

The Sneer is back – and no we’re not talking about Billy Idol’s comeback tour.

January 11, 2024
High and dry

New state climate report projects continued warming, declining streamflows