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Many of Colorado's colleges and universities offer free tuition for lower-income, in-state families who meet certain eligibility requirements.

Prairie Family Center, of Burlington, was approved for a $10,000 general operating support grant from the El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Springs at the foundation’s December trustees meeting. The Rural Communities Resource Center, Yuma; The Cubs Den, Idalia;Yuma Children’s Academy, Yuma; Wray Rehabilitation and Activities Center, Inc., Wray — were also approved as nonprofit organizations in […]

Many of Colorado's colleges and universities offer free tuition for lower-income, in-state families who meet certain eligibility requirements.

The city is currently involved in a lawsuit regarding the monument, filed by Union Protectiva de Santa Fe, that will cost the city upwards of $300,000.

RE-1 Valley School District’s homeless students are getting more support. The district’s McKinney-Vento program is among the 10 nonprofit organizations and government entities in the northeast region that El Pomar Trustees approved grants for at the Foundation’s December Trustee meeting. RE-1 will receive $5,000 for its program. The funding comes after the district was able […]

An Arctic cold front will bring subzero temperatures to most of Colorado this weekend, with wind chill bringing lows of minus 35 degrees to the eastern plains and mountains, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

An Arctic cold front will bring subzero temperatures to most of Colorado this weekend, with wind chill bringing lows of minus 35 degrees to the eastern plains and mountains, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Colorado Preps released its first coaches and media poll for the basketball season, and a few familiar mascots made the cut in both the boys and the girls lists. On the girls’ side, Merino topped out as the best team in the Class 2A poll, and Caliche earned enough votes to put it just outside […]

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the 14,167-foot summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range. My 12 hours above treeline that day left me hypoxic, my brain suffering from too little oxygen. I insisted that the route down took us the west side of Willow Lake, but my companions knew better. Now I contemplate what to call Kit Carson from the floor of...

Blizzard warnings are in effect for the eastern plains until 5 am on Tuesday morning. Then we will have a clear and less windy day in southern Colorado.