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Southern Ute Indian Tribe sues Colorado governor, gaming division over sports betting

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe is suing Gov. Jared Polis and the director of the Colorado Division of Gaming, Christopher Schroder, saying the administration is illegally freezing tribes out of the online sports betting market, in part, to maximize state tax collections. 

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In shadow of bipartisan Senate Bill 23-275 creating mustang task force, BLM plans another roundup

Four years into an aggressive federal campaign to thin wild horse herds across the West, Colorado officials fed up with helicopter roundups tried something unique — a state-federal working group to collaborate on mustang population control. 

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‘It felt like a land grab’: A Western Slope town battles against solar project

It seemed like a good idea. Put a large solar array on 640 acres of sagebrush and cedar about 30 miles northwest of Telluride. There was already a transmission line running through the property and only some cattle poking around in the shrubs and trees.

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Court rules Teller County sheriff cannot hold illegals in jail under county’s agreement with ICE

A Colorado sheriff’s practice of holding undocumented immigrants in jail through an agreement with federal immigration authorities violates state law, the Colorado Court of Appeals found Wednesday, reversing a district judge’s ruling.

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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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