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DENVER, June 10, 2021 -- The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) have announced 16 regional teams, representing 169 rural communities, as participants in the Colorado Rural Resiliency and Recovery Roadmap program.

SANTA FE, N.M. — Commission on monuments wont start up for months

I was leafing back through the May 13 Rio Grande SUN and two articles caught my attention, which I reread. The first, “Jemez Audit Shows $661 K Write-off,” and the

The area's population is exploding. But a host of abandoned communities are sprinkled across the high desert.

Last month I wrote about a trip my wife and I recently took to northern California to see my niece get married. We flew in and out of Sacramento. I also indicated I would discuss the beginnings of California as it became a state in 1850 — a very interesting time in the development of the United States. To start, it would be presumptuous of me to think I can adequately cover the start of California joining the U.S. in this short column. At best, if I can get some readers motivated to do some m...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/klamath-oregon-water-drought-bundy.html Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in California, near the Oregon border, has been severely affected by the drought and the lack of irrigation waters from Upper Klamath Lake, which usually feeds into the refuge.Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West A drought crisis has erupted in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, with fish dying en masse and...

How well do you know the history of Colorado Springs? Sure, you might know that Gen. William Jackson Palmer founded the city and that Pikes Peak was Katharine Lee Bates inspiration for the song "America the Beautiful." But how well do you really know the history of the town you live in? Not surprisingly, theres much more to the region than Garden of the Gods and a statue of a man on a horse that can cause traffic problems. Here are nine historical facts about Colorado Springs you probably didnt...

Napa historian Rebecca Yerger traces the roots of the Memorial Day holiday.

Denverite, the Denver site! Protests over racial inequity changed Denver. A year later, street art, fences and boarded up buildings remain. Boarded up windows and construction fencing around city landmarks are a familiar sight. So are signs in windows and on lawns reminding neighbors and passersby every day that Black Lives Matter. A "Black Lives Matter Blvd" sign posted above Broadway near the State Capitol. May 27, 2021. Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite...

At this time St. Louis was a raw, crude, boisterous city of some 4,600 people made up mostly of French, Indians, Spanish, Germans and Americans.