Sophie Quinton

Firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and from Larimer County manage a section of the 2018 Pingree Hill prescribed burn at the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado. The burn took over a decade to plan and complete.

To control forest fires, Colorado and other western states light more of their own

May 18, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

The Forest Service and its partners hope over the next decade to carry out a series of prescribed burns in Northern Colorado to protect communities and the river, which supplies...

Senior man is seriously ill in hospital bed (Dreamstime/TNS)

Fed up with high health care costs, Frisco community fights for a better deal

February 28, 2019 at 8:23 a.m.

Now local leaders are working on a plan to drive down prices that could be a model for the state and other places facing high health care costs. They鈥檙e forming...

As wildfire risk increases in Colorado and the West, home insurance grows harder to find

January 25, 2019 at 3:47 p.m.

While most homeowners in fire-prone places can still get policies, insurers often make coverage conditional on homeowners managing trees and undergrowth. And some might get denied by several insurers before...

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As wildfire risk increases in Colorado and the West, home insurance grows harder to find

January 5, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

As more and deadlier fires sweep through Western states, it抖阴ap becoming harder to get home insurance on a property surrounded by forest, reachable only by backroads, or on slopes where...

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With outdoor recreation tourism booming, towns pick up the tab for squeezed US Forest Service

October 20, 2018 at 7:00 a.m.

The outdoor recreation visitor boom is putting a strain on public lands that the cash-strapped U.S. Forest Service isn't equipped to handle.

Why “orphan” oil and gas wells are a growing problem for states

July 14, 2018 at 9:14 p.m.

When Bill West drives his weed sprayer over wheat and hay fields at his ranch northwest of Gillette, Wyo., he bumps into the occasional debris from the more than a...

Cloud seeding may make it snow, but will it reduce droughts in the West?

February 26, 2018 at 10:26 a.m.

Machines that prod clouds to make snow may sound like something out of an old science fiction movie. But worsening water scarcity, combined with new evidence that "cloud seeding" can...

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