4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (487+ words) After municipal elections in early April, the new city council in Colorado Springs met for the first time on April 15, 1876, making appointments to city offices and deliberating over a local liquor ordinance. Founded five years earlier by William Jackson Palmer,…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (147+ words) Decades ago, Colorado lawmakers set statewide limits on noise for different types of areas — lower limits near homes, louder away from them. But a recent court case has upended the status quo around which venues are allowed to be extra…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (657+ words) Heavy autumn rains brought relief to drought-plagued portions of the Southwest, but across the Colorado River basin ongoing water supply concerns still linger amid tense policy negotiations and near record-low reservoir storage. Even after accounting for the heavy rain, 57% of…...