LOVELAND, Colorado, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation anticipates allowing the majority of Big Thompson River water to pass through Lake Estes this spring and early summer, resulting in higher-than-average streamflows in the Big Thompson Canyon during the 2023 snowmelt season. During most years, a portion of the flow is diverted off-channel for hydropower production, reducing the total flow in the B  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following Advisory Opinion (No. AO-2023-03) on May 4, 2023: * * * To: Christopher O. Murray, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, 410 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2200, Denver, CO 80202 Dear Mr. Murray: We are responding to your advisory opinion request on behalf of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (the "Committee") and its Chair, David Williams, regarding the application of the Federal Election Campaign Act, 52 U.S  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: A Colorado man pleaded guilty today to a hate crime charge in connection with a fire he set to a church in Loveland, Colorado. According to court documents and admissions during the plea hearing, Darion Ray Sexton, 22, intentionally set fire to the church in the evening hours of Jan. 19. Sexton admitted that he set this fire by throwing two Molotov cocktails at the church - one at the front do  more

DENVER, Colorado, May 5 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news: In addition to above normal snowpack across much of the state, primarily in Western Colorado, lower elevation snowpack were particularly plentiful leading to substantial early season runoff in some basins. In addition to above normal snowpack across much of the state, primarily in Western Colorado, lower elevation snowpack were particularly plentiful leadin  more

DURANGO, Colorado, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is investing $63 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act to expand wildfire barriers, known as fuel breaks, to protect communities and firefighters across the West. Fuel breaks slow a fire's spread, create a safe zone for firefighters to work, and a safer place to   more