There’s a false narrative that Native Americans are genetically predisposed to becoming addicted to alcohol. New research shows that simply believing it can be harmful.

The Biden administration wants Congress to increase drilling companies' royalty rates, which have stayed at 12.5% for 100 years.

The infrastructure bill President Biden signed last week contains potentially big boosts in pay for wildland firefighters as well as expanded mental health services and more opportunities for permanent, year-round work.

"It's the most gratifying job I'll ever have," says a former hotshot. "But it's also a job that made me contemplate suicide and think that my family was better off with a life insurance check than being around what turned into seasonal depression."

After another long, dry summer across the West, reservoirs in the region remain at record-low levels. It will take years of wet winters to climb out of drought, and La Niña conditions mean this winter is unlikely to bring one.

Deep in the Cameron Peak burn scar, nestled among charred hills, there’s an oasis of green — an idyllic patch of trickling streams that wind through a lush grass field. Apart from a few scorched branches on the periphery, it’s hard to tell that this particular spot was in the middle of Colorado's largest-ever wildfire just a year ago. This wetland was spared thanks to the work of beavers.

The Colorado Supreme Court has approved new maps of legislative districts that will affect statehouse races for the next decade. The new boundaries appear to give Democrats an edge in next year’s elections to determine which party controls the legislative agenda at the Capitol.

Gov. Jared Polis hopes giving out more COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will keep more people out of hospitals, which public health officials fear could run out of beds by the end of December.

Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in the United States is now very much in doubt after Wednesday's historic arguments before the Supreme Court.

The first case of the omicron COVID variant has been identified in the U.S. Health officials found it in a traveler who had returned from South Africa just before Thanksgiving.

For this week only, students can pay the $35 fine in currency or in peanut butter. It has to be at least 80 ounces of peanut butter, and donations will go to Aggie Cupboard, a campus food pantry.

To all those holiday present procrastinators out there (you know who you are): Be sure to ship that holiday gift sooner rather than later to get those presents to their destination before December 25.