Colorado

The Fetcher ranch in northwest Colorado is on the frontlines this year of record-low snowpack across the West. It's adding a sense of urgency among seven states to finalize a plan for how to conserve the dwindling Colorado River.

Colorado ended the year with extremely low snowpack with readings at a third of the state’s measuring sites at or near record lows.

Federal wildlife managers are finalizing a plan to reintroduce gray wolves into the wild in Colorado.

Colorado lawmakers are looking to strengthen the state’s role as a safe haven for abortion rights in a region largely dominated by conservative states that have restricted the practice.

Snowpack in Arizona is much higher than in many other parts of the mountain west. Most regions that collect data in the state are showing more than 200% of average for this time of year.

A Utah-based Native American tribe criticized the White House again for not adequately consulting its leaders ahead of this week’s creation of a national monument on ancestral lands in Colorado.

A former Colorado county clerk who became the first public official to issue a same-sex marriage license in 1975, has died at the age of 78. Clela Rorex became a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and showed up to every Pride parade in Boulder, CO before her death which occurred apropos during this year's Pride Month.

The commission that oversees a historic steam railroad in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado has voted to delay opening its operating season by nearly three weeks because of the extreme wildfire threats in the region.

Two western states - Utah and Colorado - are among the top ten best places for music lovers. That’s according to a recent study conducted by Mecart, a recording studio manufacturer.

The “Wood for Life” program supplies firewood from recently thinned forests to homes on the Navajo Nation. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, it’s now expanding from Arizona to Colorado.