Ten points of enhancement or change are being recommended by the national transportation secretary nearly three weeks after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Pete Buttigieg, in a release early Tuesday morning, also issued five requests specifically for Norfolk Southern.
In a new study, several researchers at CU Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in what is today the Southwest United States may have made more than 1,000 years ago. Rodger Kram, associate professor emeritus of integrative physiology, and James Wilson, then an undergraduate studying biochemistry, spent the summer of 2020 training for an impressive test of endurance: Together, they carried a ponderosa pine log weighing more than 130 pounds for 15 miles up and down a forest road in Boulder County, Colorado—and they did it using only their heads in a technique inspired, in part, by sherpas in Nepal.
A 96-room hotel development project, dubbed “The Broadmore of the South,” is projected to open for business in late-Spring, the developers said last week. The Hilton Garden Inn, located within the La Puerta Business Improvement District behind Club 14 Garden Grille and Pub, is currently expected to open between late-April and late-May this year.
The rollout of the Keep Colorado Wild Pass is not going as smoothly as planned. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is hoping state lawmakers will give the agency a $2.2 million cash infusion to cover unanticipated costs in the agency’s campaign to sway vehicle owners to not opt out of the additional $29 fee with their annual registration.
The Trinidad Police Department responded to or initiated some 422 calls for service between Thursday, Feb. 9, and Tuesday, Feb. 21, including warrant arrests, trespassing, assault, drugs and vehicle accidents. The Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office saw some 221 incidents during that time, including drugs, harassment, restraining order violations, numerous traffic stops and a pursuit.
On Feb. 8, students at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, filed into Hughes Auditorium for their regularly scheduled chapel service.
When supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s Congress, comparisons were made to the 2021 US Capitol Building riot. Like the American attack, the invaders were extremists acting in the name of an ousted right-wing president and — in both cases — the insurrections came following elections rife with misinformation.
All three schools in Trinidad School District No. 1 entered lockout status Wednesday afternoon after the Trinidad Police Department Communications Center received a threat regarding the former Eckhart Elementary School.
State and local tax revenue generated by Colorado hotels will increase 16.7% in 2023 compared to 2019 collections, according to estimates by the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Colorado’s projected state and local tax revenue will be $815 million this year, an increase of $116 million since the pandemic affected travel in 2020.
Trinidad Masons placed flags in downtown Trinidad on Monday to celebrate Washington’s birthday and President’s Day. Lodge No. 28 master Anthony MacWaters shared the photo and pointed out the fact the George Washington himself was a Mason.