Larimer County

After years of controversy, Chimney Hollow Reservoir nears completion

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Back in 2009, Zac Wiebe was hiking near the foothills of northern Colorado, where today a dam rises close to its final height of 350 feet.

“I recall a sign that actually stated the reservoir could be built as soon as 2009,” Wiebe said.

That would not be the case — not in the face of lengthy permitting and litigation against Chimney Hollow Reservoir, to be a smaller neighbor of Carter Lake and divert Colorado River water for the northern Front Range’s growing populations. In 2021, environmental groups and Northern Water settled a $15 million lawsuit.

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In a shifting of chairs, Republican parties have new leadership in many Colorado counties

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The only constant in life is said to be change. That certainly is the way it may feel for those in a number of county Republican parties around Colorado.

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If you live in Denver, Larimer counties, you can expect marathon ballots to vote

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Depending on where you live in Colorado, the 2024 election ballot may seem like you just sat down to start a new novel, with a storyline that hikes taxes and debt,  makes changes to city and county charters, bans “trophy” hunting of mountain lions when it’s already illegal, and allows government employees to collectively bargain, among myriad other things.

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Former Larimer County chief district attorney pleads guilty to sexual assault of court intern

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A former chief district attorney in Larimer County has pleaded guilty to sexual assault after a former intern came forward to police. Dan Quinn, who served in the Larimer County District Attorney’s Office in the late 1990s, was charged with having sexual relations with a county intern years before she turned 18.

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