Navajo Nation President Poised To OK River Water For Crops
Federal officials say the quality of San Juan River water on the Navajo Nation has returned to what it was before a spill at a Colorado gold mine sent toxic sludge into the waterway.
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Federal officials say the quality of San Juan River water on the Navajo Nation has returned to what it was before a spill at a Colorado gold mine sent toxic sludge into the waterway.
Colorado is renewing efforts to get teens to stay away from legalized recreational marijuana.
The Jefferson County School District is introducing new soft-shell helmet covers in the athletic programs with the aim to reduce the risk of injury to students. But will the so-called Guardian Caps actually help?
Back to school comes with a warning in Douglas County after two students were diagnosed with viral meningitis at Mountain Vista High School.
Protected health information from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing was unintentionally mailed to the wrong people, the department announced on Monday.
Participants in this year's AIDS Walk have a goal: to end AIDS in Colorado by the year 2030.
A special group of children get to take their parents to a Colorado Rockies game at Coors Field thanks to the generosity of donations and the drive to give back.
Federal officials say initial tests on sediments collected downstream of a mine waste spill show no risk to people using Colorado's Animas River.
A river in Colorado that was turned sickly yellow by a mine waste spill reopened Friday after the now-diluted toxic plume passed through and reached Lake Powell — a huge reservoir 300 miles downstream that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to the Southwest.
The Animas River has reopened to the public for recreational use after the wastewater contamination from an abandoned mine last week.
The Environmental Protection Agency is promising to "make it right" when it comes to the wastewater contamination of the Animas River.
The city of Burlington has been fined nearly a million dollars for more than 2,100 violations of Colorado drinking water standards.
People who live along the Animas River could be ingesting the contaminated water in any number of ways, from drinking it to showering in it, and the fear is how much exposure those people have had.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took full responsibility Tuesday for the mine waste spoiling rivers downstream from Silverton, Colorado, but people who live near the idled and leaking Gold King mine say local authorities and mining companies spent decades spurning federal cleanup help.
For rafting and fishing businesses, this year was set to be one of the best but that all changed last week after the massive spill of wastewater on the Animas River.
