SANTA FE, NM — Wildfire season is coming and now is the perfect time to prepare your home for a possible ember storm. The 2022 Wildfire Preparedness is Year-Round campaign provides monthly wildfire preparedness tasks that follow the changing seasons. The March message from the Forest Stewards Guild and the Fire Adapted New Mexico learning network and our partners is when the wind blows embers can follow.
The air temperature hadn’t risen much from the night before by the time people started taking the plunge into Trinidad Lake last Saturday, but that didn’t stop people from doing it anyway. Spectators and participants congregated along the shore at the Trinidad Lake State Park Boat Ramp mid-morning Saturday, Feb.
Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association employee pension fund is withdrawing more than $7.2 million that’s held in a Russian bank following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The move is part of a federal order meant to impose sanctions on Russia’s economy.
Trinidad City Council approved some $923,644 in expenditures using fourth quarter 2021 marijuana sales taxes at its meeting Tuesday night. Council voted 7-0 to approve 16 expenditures, including improvements to municipal buildings, equipment purchases for city first responders and funding for two separate city entities.
A group of Colorado Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Secretary of State Jena Griswold seeking to prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in the June 28 primary election. The lead attorney on the lawsuit is John Eastman, the conservative, controversial former visiting scholar at the University of Colorado who, while employed by CU, also authored memos on the ways former President Donald Trump could overturn the results of the 2020 election.
DENVER — A team of conservation and amphibian experts from Denver Zoo traveled to the Native Aquatic Species Restoration Facility (NASRF) in Alamosa, Colorado, in November 2021 to pick up precious cargo: 95 boreal toads that will serve as an additional breeding population for their species.
The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board (CGNAB) is seeking public input to consider recommendations to replace geographic features containing the term “squaw.” While the process is part of a nationwide federal process, the CGNAB is limiting its consideration to those locations within Colorado, and invites the public to submit recommendations.
New Mexico law enforcement has charged a Raton man accused of sexually abusing his step-granddaughter for years with six counts of sexual abuse. Larry Guara (61) faces six charges, including one count of criminal sexual penetration in the first degree (child under 13 years old), one count of criminal sexual penetration in the second degree (child aged between 13 and 18/ force or coercion), one count of criminal sexual contact / minor third degree (child under 13 years old / clothed) and three counts of criminal sexual contact / minor second degree (child under 13 years old / unclothed).
A stabbing victim in Saguache County who was killed at a residence Wednesday, Feb. 23 has been identified by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation as 41-year-old Brian Taylor of Villa Grove, Colorado.