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GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Workers hiked up the side of a Colorado canyon Tuesday to examine another boulder threatening to fall on a major interstate, days after a rock slide punched gaping holes in an elevated section of the highway.
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DENVER — A bill that opponents say would undermine senior water rights first died, then was resurrected and gained preliminary approval in the House on Tuesday.
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The winter of 2009-10 could still have some nasty surprises in it — after all, March can be a snowy month — but it has been a mild one on taxpayers’ wallets thus far, according to snow-removal statistics from Pueblo County and city governments.
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DENVER — Two state representatives who intended to vote against a bill on Tuesday accidentally voted for it, affecting the outcome in the House.
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Since the city of Pueblo began using photo enforcement techniques for red light runners, cameras have flashed on more than 1,300 vehicles.
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City Council agreed to annex a narrow 70-acre strip of land into the city Monday night, creating a city-owned path to the proposed future site of a new natural-gas power plant that Black Hills Energy intends to build northeast of the city.
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CANON CITY — Fremont County commissioners on Tuesday passed temporary regulations — pending more direction from the state — governing the location of medical mari- juana dispensaries and growing operations.
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WALSENBURG — District Judge Claude Appel is cracking down on people who fail to show up for jury duty.
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DENVER — A judge this week chastised a former female prison officer at a Florence federal prison for becoming romantically involved with a male inmate and breaking the law.
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A Pueblo West man arrested for stealing copper piping from an abandoned home owned by former state Rep. Doug Bruce pleaded guilty to criminal mischief last week.