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New technology may help find missing people in Colorado’s backcountry within minutes

A Durango-based helicopter company is testing a new tool that could help search and rescue teams in helicopters detect missing and distressed people in Colorado’s backcountry within minutes and communicate with them, even if they are stuck in an area without cellphone service.

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Colorado vets go through hundreds of unclaimed cremated remains to give comrades dignified memorial

A motorcycle escort rumbled slowly along the pavement that cuts through meandering rows of identical white headstones at Denver’s Fort Logan National Cemetery, making its way toward a pavilion where dozens of military veterans converged under a brilliant late April sky for a long-overdue rite.

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Colorado’s (not yet signed) new law bans cellphone use while driving. When can it lead to a traffic stop?

All drivers will be prohibited from talking on or otherwise using their cellphones while driving under a bill passed by the Colorado legislature this year that Gov. Jared Polis says he will sign into law. 

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Transition to reformulated gas in nine Front Range counties will result in price increase there. How high will it go?

Keep an eye on gas prices in the next few weeks, Colorado, and you can watch a major policy battle play out between an extremely irritated Gov. Jared Polis and officials enforcing the federal Clean Air Act. 

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The state’s largest utility will file a new wildfire mitigation plan next month. What might that look like?

An inquiry by state regulators into Xcel Energy’s April “public safety” electricity outage — which created chaos in parts of the Front Range — has yielded a list of potential steps utilities and communities might take to limit future problems.

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Ten bills passed in session, earning some bipartisan support, aimed to address variety of water issues

Colorado lawmakers gave the thumbs-up to 10 water measures this year that will bring millions of dollars in new funding to help protect streams, bring oversight to construction activities in wetlands and rivers, make commercial rainwater harvesting easier and support efforts to restore the clarity of Grand Lake.

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Federal land managers are planning Colorado’s next wild horse roundup, ignoring pleas to stop using a helicopter

The latest effort to decrease the wild horse population in Colorado will target the layered beige-and-purple plateaus of Little Book Cliffs, rangeland near Palisade that is home to about 200 mustangs. 

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