By David Koenig, The Associated Press Microscopic examination supports early suspicions that wear and tear caused a fan blade to snap inside one engine of a United Airlines plane that made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff last month in Denver, federal safety investigators said Frid…

GREELEY— A Colorado meatpacking plant that saw a deadly coronavirus outbreak last year suspended operations Friday so that workers could receive COVID-19 vaccines on-site. Workers at the JBS USA-owned plant received their shots in a temporary clinic set up in a hallway, The Greeley Tribune r…

Last year, as Sabra Lovejoy’s students were drawing up their ideal future city for a school project, they landed on one idea that, at the time, seemed a far-off dream at best: remote school. Little did they know that their ideal would be realized within a month and that it would end up being…

Samantha Wranosky thought she was all set. As the owner of Samantha B Design in Fort Collins, the graphic designer applied, was approved for and received her first Paycheck Protection Program loan on Feb. 9.  She skipped the opportunity last year because she didn’t think she’d qualify for th…

Evan Hannibal happily handed over his helmet video of the avalanche that triggered below his snowboard and buried a service road above Interstate 70 last March.  He hoped the Colorado Avalanche Information Center would use the video and his first-person account to help educate other skiers a…

It can be the key to accessing social services and education opportunities, getting a job or finding a place to live. But as recently as 2015, fewer than half of the adults leaving Colorado’s prison system had a state-issued photo identification card or driver’s license when they were releas…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Sheneen McClain is not always hopeful but thinks it’s possible the death of her son Elijah McClain could create change. Officers in suburban Denver stopped the 23-year-old Black massage therapist in 2019 as he walked home from the store after …

WESTCLIFFE — Citing major declines in coronavirus cases and progress in vaccinations, the Custer County Board of Commissioners has voted to eliminate all pandemic-related restrictions on social gatherings, businesses and government operations. KCNC-TV reports that the board voted Thursday to…

By Patty Nieberg, The Associated Press/Report for America A 70-year-old Colorado man accused of killing two women in 1982 has been arrested, officials said Wednesday. Alan Lee Phillips, of the mountain hamlet of Dumont, was being held in Park County Jail on suspicion of killing Annette Schne…

By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press The mayor of Aurora on Tuesday thanked a panel of experts who delivered a highly critical report on the fatal arrest of Elijah McClain as an important step in the city’s healing on Tuesday. However, a few city council members faulted the investigation …

The incessant attacks on Colorado’s unemployment system likely by local and international fraudsters hasn’t slowed and state labor officials have had it. The state Department of Labor and Employment joined forces with the Attorney General’s Office on Thursday to fight the fraudulent claims t…