The Colorado Sun

Tri-State set to pay $70M in aid to Craig, Moffat County to offset closing power plant, coal mines

Moffat County and the city of Craig are in line for $70 million in aid from the utility shuttering the local power plant and the coal mines that supply it, under a settlement filed with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.

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A mysterious monolith appeared in rural Colorado. Do we really want to know where it came from?

On top of a hill prickly with dry grass and cacti is a four-sided structure that looks like the sky, the hills and the small crowd of people standing next to it, but it’s none of those things. It’s not a riddle, it’s a monolith. Perhaps the 247th spotted worldwide since 2020. 

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Kansas forced Colorado to stop irrigating 25,000 acres of farmland. Was it too soon to put them in the same room?

Agricultural producers, scientists and policymakers from Colorado and Kansas gathered near the Ogallala Aquifer in Burlington on Wednesday to air their concerns and share ideas for how to survive continued drought. But it was hard to escape the Republican River Basin-shaped elephant in the room. 

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Elisabeth Epps, Tim Hernández unseated as Democratic legislative primary results are a mixed bag for progressives 

Moderate Democrats allied with Gov. Jared Polis won a number of Colorado state legislative primaries Tuesday night, the culmination of a hotly contested election season that pitted progressives against moderates as the future of state policy hung in the balance.

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