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Search for fifth Copper Creek wolf pup called off by Colorado wildlife managers after 19 nights
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Search for fifth Copper Creek wolf pup called off by Colorado wildlife managers after 19 nights

By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun Colorado wildlife officials have given up on capturing a fifth wolf pup that was left behind in Grand County when the rest of its pack was relocated last month.  The operation to find the pup was suspended Thursday because of declining temperatures that make it unsafe to move the animal, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Friday.  Wildlife officials saw the gray wolf pup on game cameras in September and tried for 19 nights to capture the pup, which they believe is the seventh member of the Copper Creek pack, CPW said. Still, they will continue to watch the game cameras and look for evidence of the pup, which is about six months old, they said.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Safeway would be owned in state by two companies post merger, neither would be Albertsons
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Safeway would be owned in state by two companies post merger, neither would be Albertsons

By Tamara Chuang and Olivia Prentzel | The Colorado Sun If the supermarket megamerger goes through as proposed, Safeway stores in Colorado would be owned by two companies. Neither would be the current owner Albertsons, which would fade into acquirer and King Soopers parent, Kroger Co. But while Kroger plans to take over 14 Safeways, the other 89 in the state would find a new owner in C&S Wholesale Grocer, a wholesale distributor that aspires to become a major grocery chain. And don’t forget there are two Albertsons in Pueblo and Durango that C&S plans to buy as part of the divestiture and conversion to Safeway. But C&S won’t own the Safeway brand — just a license to use the name in Colorado and Arizona for three years. Kroger plans to keep the other Safeway stores it’s...
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How to register to vote, cast your ballot and more FAQs about Colorado’s 2024 election
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How to register to vote, cast your ballot and more FAQs about Colorado’s 2024 election

By Alexander Edwards | The Colorado Sun Election day is Nov. 5, and voters across Colorado will be casting ballots that will decide the outcome of the presidential race, congressional contests, statewide ballot measures, legislative battles and a myriad of local issues. County clerks can start mailing out ballots Friday, Oct. 11. As part of our 2024 election guide, we’re here to answer some questions about voting and how the election works. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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How to register to vote, cast your ballot and more FAQs about Colorado’s 2024 election
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How to register to vote, cast your ballot and more FAQs about Colorado’s 2024 election

By The Colorado Sun Election day is Nov. 5, and voters across Colorado will be casting ballots that will decide the outcome of the presidential race, congressional contests, statewide ballot measures, legislative battles and a myriad of local issues. County clerks can start mailing out ballots Friday, Oct. 11. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Denver’s 7A: What you need to know about RTD’s request to keep all its sales tax revenue
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Denver’s 7A: What you need to know about RTD’s request to keep all its sales tax revenue

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun Metro Denver-area voters will decide Nov. 5 whether the Regional Transportation District can continue to keep all of its sales tax revenue in coming years, even when a strong economy pushes revenue up above caps set in the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.  The so-called “de-Brucing,” named after TABOR author Douglas Bruce, is a common request from local taxing agencies.  In RTD’s case, a “yes” vote on 7A would not raise the current dedicated RTD sales tax, but would allow RTD to keep projected revenue about $50 million to $60 million a year above the TABOR cap instead of refunding that amount to millions of taxpayers.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Denver’s 16th Street Mall aims to finish construction by summer 2025
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Denver’s 16th Street Mall aims to finish construction by summer 2025

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun The stretch between Larimer and Arapahoe streets on Denver’s 16th Street Mall reopened Tuesday with great fanfare, including a MyDenver Day block party and a pep talk to prepare for the day when the whole mall can celebrate. “We will, by the time we are back here next summer, have opened the entire 16th Street Mall from Union Station to buses that will be running all the way up to the Sheraton,” said Mayor Mike Johnston, during the Downtown Denver Partnership annual meeting held outside the organization’s headquarters at 16th and Arapahoe streets. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN Prior construction on Denver's 16th Street Mall is shown. (Photo credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Forest Service closes Colorado caves to limit spread of bat disease that has killed millions of animals
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Forest Service closes Colorado caves to limit spread of bat disease that has killed millions of animals

By Jason Blevins | The Colorado Sun This spring, wildlife biologists found 32 bats on the Front Range with white-nose syndrome, up from one on the Eastern Plains in 2023. This month federal wildlife officials reported the first bat in Utah infected with the syndrome that has killed millions of bats across North America in recent years. “This is definitely a surge. Imagine Colorado is a big rock sitting on a beach and the waves coming in around it are this disease,” said Daniel Neubaum, the species conservation manager dealing with bats for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “That’s what we are seeing. We are probably going to see the disease trickle down from the north and I think the western parts of the state will be the last places we detect it in Colorado.” READ ...
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Albertsons brand would no longer exist in Colorado after merger with Kroger
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Albertsons brand would no longer exist in Colorado after merger with Kroger

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun As week two of the State of Colorado v. Kroger trial begins Tuesday (Monday is a state holiday), last week’s testimony gave onlookers a peek behind the corporate grocery curtain in Colorado. If the merger moves forward, Albertsons would no longer exist in Colorado, as it hands most of its local stores, which include mostly Safeways, to a little-known grocer and food distributor called C&S Wholesale Grocers in New Hampshire. Lawyers with the state Attorney General’s Office questioned whether the small company with a spotty history managing acquisitions can handle the $2.9 billion divestiture. But C&S, whose chairman also cofounded Symbotic, a warehouse robotics company, has big plans to invest in the stores, lower prices and grow overnight f...
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From Greeley to Pueblo, Front Range cities still need new water storage
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From Greeley to Pueblo, Front Range cities still need new water storage

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun When a city must find its water 50 miles away and 1,400 feet underground, in an aquifer whose origins first had to be pegged to the late Cretaceous and the early Paleogene periods, and further delineated between Colorado turf on the surface or Wyoming land just a skosh to the north, while drilling two-way wells at $1 million each on the way to an eventual price tag approaching $400 million, and then filter out dissolved uranium, it would seem a stretch to call this plan the easy way out.   But for Greeley, bent on doubling its current population of 109,000 by 2060, this is indeed the simpler choice.  Greeley will store and retrieve its biggest future water supply at Terry Ranch, at the Wyoming border, because it’s the most conveni...
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Does Colorado’s public pension program invest in companies that boycott Israel?
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Does Colorado’s public pension program invest in companies that boycott Israel?

By Justin George | The Colorado Sun Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association, or PERA, is barred from investing in companies that have economic prohibitions against Israel under a law passed in 2016. The law requires PERA to identify all companies that have economic prohibitions against Israel and put together a list of these companies twice a year. PERA must notify any company on the list that it could be subject to divestment if the company continues its anti-Israel policy. If the company hasn’t dropped its policy within 180 days of being notified, PERA is required to stop investing in it. This year, a Colorado house bill proposed to repeal the rule but it failed. The issue has come under greater scrutiny since Israel has been at war in Palestine since an Oct. 7, 2023...
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