Criminal charges being filed in BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill nearly two years later, with BP engineer Kurt Mix accused of destroying evidence of the real magnitude of the largest oil spill in U.S. history
 
This week’s crowning of Fort Lewis College student Jess Rae Growing Thunder, 22, a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of Montana, as Miss Indian World 2012
The Animas River Trail taking another step toward completion, with a $500,000 grant for the 29th to 32nd connector as well as the imminent opening of the “Mall Corner”
Monday’s apparent senior prank wreaking communitywide havoc, leaving kids stranded at the bus stop and working parents scrambling to find child care
 

The New Jersey woman arrested on charges of child abuse for bringing her 5-year-old to a tanning booth, where she sustained sunburns across her entire body
 
The Catholic church threatening to pull funding for locally based immigrant advocacy group Compañeros because it is affiliated with the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition, which supports gay rights
 

In this week's issue...

May 15, 2025
End of the trail

Despite tariff pause, Colorado bike company can’t hang on through supply chain chaos

May 8, 2025
Shared pain

Dismal trend highlights need to cut usage in Upper Basin, too

April 24, 2025
A tale of two bills

Nuclear gets all the hype, but optimizing infrastructure will have bigger impact