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Caroline Llanes/Rocky Mountain Community RadioThe Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with firing thousands of federal workers across several agencies. Advocates worry that if a lower court rules the firings are illegal, agencies will be too hollowed-out to hire workers back. -
Courtesy of Joe Mahoney/Rocky Mountain PBS I-NewsThe Colorado Bureau of Investigation commissioned the report as it looks for ways to speed up evidence processing times and improve the labs’ operations.
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This comes amid Trump administration cuts to special services on the 988 hotline. -
Researchers estimate that energy costs will go up for consumers, and jobs could be lost as Republicans gut clean energy programs. In fast-growing areas like the Mountain West, these cuts could severely hurt grid capacity. -
Proposed cuts to Medicaid would hit women at a time when many already feel economically insecure. -
Colorado is joining a multistate coalition in a lawsuit to block the mass transfer of individual personal data to DHS and ICE. -
Senate Republicans would have mandated the sale of over a million acres of BLM lands across the West, but that proposal was axed late Saturday night. Conservation advocates are celebrating, but say the fight isn’t over yet. -
Two people, likely firefighters, are dead after responding to a brush fire and were shot in an "ambush style" attack. -
States that use Colorado River water need to agree on new rules for sharing it by 2026. If they don't, they will likely end up in messy court battles. -
As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are reaffirming they want a say. -
The federal trade program for low-income young people got a reprieve. -
The conversation around replacing the presidential portraits with gubernatorial ones began before Donald Trump complained about his painting. But the controversy kicked the talks into higher gear.
