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...

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