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Four people have died in avalanches since December 26 and there is more snow forecast for Colorado this week, reports the Colorado Avalanche Center. “Dangerous avalanche conditions will last through the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.” said Ethan Greene, Director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Applications for Colorado’s Centennial Farms & Ranches 2023 program's deadline for applications is May 1, 2023. To apply or learn more, visit h-co.org/CentennialFarms. Sup...

Backers of the project say it would provide essential materials to build electric vehicles and address the climate crisis, but a coalition of Native American tribes is fighting against it.

Backers of a planned lithium mine at Thacker Pass say it would provide materials for electric vehicles, but a coalition of Native American tribes is fighting against it.

The Radical Cat, new bookstore and cat adoption lounge in Midtown Reno, Nevada, offers an inclusive space during uncertain times.

Vermont elected Democrat Peter Welch to the Senate with 66.8% of the vote and Democrat Becca Balint to the House of Representatives with 60.1% of the vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Vermont also re-elected Republican Governor Phil Scott, defeating Democrat Brenda Siegel, with approximately 68.9% of the vote, as reported by the Vermont Secretary of State. 

Over the past few weeks, The Campus talked with six alumni working in politics and government to hear about their experiences, how Middlebury shaped their careers and the moment they caught the political bug. 

On election day, Vermont voters will decide whether or not to include Proposition 5, the Reproductive Liberty Amendment, in the Vermont Constitution as the 22nd Article. The Reproductive Liberty Amendment would enshrine reproductive autonomy in the state constitution.

Democrat Becca Balint could be on the verge of being elected the first woman and first openly gay person to represent Vermont in Congress

Balint, whose grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust, hopes to offer deep listening skills she perfected as a middle-school teacher to find common ground in Washington

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday for primary day in an unusually busy political year in Vermont.