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National park maintenance work sidelined as Trump’s Freedom 250 takes precedence | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
MONTANA National park maintenance sidelined BILLINGS — The 250th anniversary of U.S. independence was just months away when National Park Service employees received a surprising directive from Washington: Maintenance projects approved for this year at sites across the nation were being relegated to a new “low priority” list. Work wanted by the White House was…
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Orphaned grizzly cubs arrive at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo as permanent guests
Two grizzly bear cubs arrived at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo earlier this month as permanent residents after they were orphaned in the Montana wilderness. The unnamed, six-month-old cubs were born sometime around the new year and were transported to the zoo when their mother was euthanized after having too many human interactions; the latest, confirmed livestock…
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How Northern Colorado turned its season around and became the Big Sky contender the numbers say the Bears are | College Basketball Insider
GREELEY — Process over product. That’s been the motto for Steve Smiley and his Northern Colorado team all season. It was that way when the Bears won 10 games in nonconference play for the first time in program history, including beating Colorado for the first time in nearly 100 years. It was that way when…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver. Little else is known about the details of the operation, which tallied one of the biggest seizures of the drug so far this year. Authorities told…
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
There’s a timeless quality to World War II that America’s other conflicts don’t possess. The battle across two oceans came against powerful enemies who possessed much of three continents. The objectives of the war came with a clarity Americans haven’t seen since: We would either topple our fascist opponents or learn to speak Japanese and…