Colorado Democrat Jason Crow is filing a discharge petition to force a House vote on legal protections for Afghan allies who aided U.S. forces but now face deportation.

The FAA lifted its nationwide ground stop at 6:16 p.m. Mountain time Friday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed overloaded, decades-old communications equipment. More than 200 Denver departures were canceled.

Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, after the Associated Press called the race Friday, November 14, with 99 percent counted.

El Niño has a better-than-even chance of becoming the strongest on record, favoring a wet winter across the southern U.S. In Colorado, strong El Niño winters have helped the eastern plains most and the Western Slope least.

Governor Jared Polis granted 27 pardons Friday, including one to Vanessa Peoples, whose 2017 reckless endangerment case drew national attention to the child welfare system and her Aurora arrest.

Safe2Tell received 29,302 student safety reports in the 2025-26 school year, the second-highest total in the anonymous tip line's history, according to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser's office.

Voters in 10 states rejected or restricted nearly all of 41 local data center measures, and opposition helped shape high-profile races, including Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa's win over Greg Abbott's record.

The share of working-age adults without health insurance rose to 11.2 percent this year, up from 8.9 percent in 2024, after federal Obamacare subsidies expired at the end of last year.

States are building their own ways to verify which Native Americans are exempt from new Medicaid work requirements, raising concerns that qualified enrollees could lose coverage as they did during the 2023 unwinding.

Guttmacher Institute data show advanced practice clinicians, not physicians, provided more than 360,000 abortions in 2025, nearly a third of U.S. abortions, as OB-GYN shortages grow.

Hot chicken soup can ease some cold symptoms for a short time, but there is no good evidence it cures, prevents or shortens a cold or the flu. Here is what the studies found.

The FAA lifted its nationwide ground stop at 6:16 p.m. Mountain time Friday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed overloaded, decades-old communications equipment. More than 200 Denver departures were canceled.

The FAA said a temporary telecommunications outage led it to halt departures at every U.S. airport Friday. Denver International had 284 delayed departures by mid-afternoon.

The FAA stopped departures at every U.S. airport Friday afternoon after a communication problem hit the centers that guide aircraft between airports. No cause or restart time had been given.

Dale Conner was born July 12, 1957 and departed this life November 11, 2026.

Celebrating birthdays and anniversaries in Kiowa County.

Eads School breakfast and lunch menus for November 16-19, 2026

Plainview School breakfast and lunch menus for November 16-19, 2026

Community - Healing Run Commemoration Dinner

El Niño is on track to become one of the strongest on record, and six of the seven strong El Niño winters since 1950 brought Kiowa County more precipitation than usual.

A 4-inch hailstone south of Chivington on September 20 tied the largest ever reported in Kiowa County, and no hail that big had fallen there so late in the year.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Showers and gusts up to 40 mph are likely in Cheyenne Wells on Saturday, November 14, with the chance of rain at 70 percent after 1 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Goodland.

Kit Carson School calendar for November 16-29, 2026

Cheyenne Wells School calendar for November 16-29, 2026

Events in southeast Colorado for November 13-22, 2026.

Cheyenne Wells and Cheyenne County expect sunny, dry weather with highs in the 60s through Friday, but a 30 percent chance of showers arrives Saturday night.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Democrat Eileen Laubacher declared victory Monday over Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, though the Associated Press had not yet called the race.

Cheyenne Wells and Cheyenne County will see sunny, dry weather through Wednesday, Veterans Day, with highs near 70 Monday and a cooler 62 that day.

Nearly 34 percent of Colorado households spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing as of July 1, with renters hit hardest, according to a State Demography Office assessment.

John Deere will close its Ottumwa and Clarion factories over the next two fiscal years, affecting about 300 workers at normal production volumes, as the company streamlines manufacturing.

North Dakota farmers like Ben Bakko say a temporary break allowing cheaper red diesel on highways, which expires November 30, does little to offset steep fuel price increases.

The median age of first-time homebuyers held at a record 40 years old last year, as younger buyers struggle with high prices and interest rates, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Voters in 10 states rejected or restricted nearly all of 41 local data center measures, and opposition helped shape high-profile races, including Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa's win over Greg Abbott's record.

Colorado House Republicans accuse Governor-elect Phil Weiser and Democratic lawmakers of undermining voters after Weiser said four voter-approved measures on sports, surgeries, and fentanyl and trafficking penalties need a long, hard look.

Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, after the Associated Press called the race Friday, November 14, with 99 percent counted.

Postal worker unions, civic groups and Democratic secretaries of state are urging the U.S. Postal Service to rescind Trump's mail ballot rule, which requires states to submit lists of likely mail voters.

Kansas has recorded 14 measles cases in 2026 so far, but kindergarten MMR vaccination rates have fallen to 90.26 percent, down from 94.47 percent in 2019-20.

Hot chicken soup can ease some cold symptoms for a short time, but there is no good evidence it cures, prevents or shortens a cold or the flu. Here is what the studies found.

Conservationists are cloning ancient coast redwoods from champion trees, such as the roughly 1000-year-old Brotherhood Tree, to restore old-growth forests that store large amounts of carbon.

Governor Jared Polis urged state lawmakers to rein in Medicaid spending so Amendment 87 revenue does not go entirely to the program within three years, instead of education and early childhood.

Oregon Department of Agriculture officials confirmed bird flu in a Morrow County dairy herd, the state's first detection of the highly contagious virus in cattle, found through routine testing.

El Niño has a better-than-even chance of becoming the strongest on record, favoring a wet winter across the southern U.S. In Colorado, strong El Niño winters have helped the eastern plains most and the Western Slope least.

El Niño is on track to become one of the strongest on record, and six of the seven strong El Niño winters since 1950 brought Kiowa County more precipitation than usual.

Farm policy experts say the overdue Farm Bill offers Congress a chance to curb corporate concentration in meatpacking and seed sales and give North Dakota farmers more options.

Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, after the Associated Press called the race Friday, November 14, with 99 percent counted.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet and three other Democrats say a short-term funding bill must bar the Trump administration from using appropriated money for the Iran war before the December 11 deadline.

Voters in 10 states rejected or restricted nearly all of 41 local data center measures, and opposition helped shape high-profile races, including Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa's win over Greg Abbott's record.

Democrat Eileen Laubacher leads Republican Lauren Boebert by 4,894 votes in the 4th Congressional District, which covers Cheyenne, Kiowa and Prowers counties, with the race still uncalled.

Environmental and Alaska Native groups sued the Interior Department on Thursday, challenging its decision to revive expired Liberty oil leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's coast.

Colorado Democrat Jason Crow is filing a discharge petition to force a House vote on legal protections for Afghan allies who aided U.S. forces but now face deportation.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., pressed Justice Department attorneys on when Trump's second birthright citizenship order takes effect, as the ACLU challenges the new policy.

A crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Georgetown injured nine people, including two Clear Creek County deputies, as the Colorado State Patrol closed the eastbound lanes Thursday.

Conservationists are cloning ancient coast redwoods from champion trees, such as the roughly 1000-year-old Brotherhood Tree, to restore old-growth forests that store large amounts of carbon.

El Niño has a better-than-even chance of becoming the strongest on record, favoring a wet winter across the southern U.S. In Colorado, strong El Niño winters have helped the eastern plains most and the Western Slope least.

El Niño is on track to become one of the strongest on record, and six of the seven strong El Niño winters since 1950 brought Kiowa County more precipitation than usual.

The Colorado Department of Transportation will reopen US 160 over Wolf Creek Pass on weekends starting Saturday, November 14, with lane restrictions and delays from flood repairs.

The share of working-age adults without health insurance rose to 11.2 percent this year, up from 8.9 percent in 2024, after federal Obamacare subsidies expired at the end of last year.

Environmental and Alaska Native groups sued the Interior Department on Thursday, challenging its decision to revive expired Liberty oil leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's coast.

Governor Jared Polis urged state lawmakers to rein in Medicaid spending so Amendment 87 revenue does not go entirely to the program within three years, instead of education and early childhood.

The Department of Local Affairs released Colorado's first statewide Housing Needs Assessment, finding supply is growing, yet 842,900 households, nearly 34 percent, are cost burdened.

Voters in 10 states rejected or restricted nearly all of 41 local data center measures, and opposition helped shape high-profile races, including Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa's win over Greg Abbott's record.

Kansas has recorded 14 measles cases in 2026 so far, but kindergarten MMR vaccination rates have fallen to 90.26 percent, down from 94.47 percent in 2019-20.

Hot chicken soup can ease some cold symptoms for a short time, but there is no good evidence it cures, prevents or shortens a cold or the flu. Here is what the studies found.

Safe2Tell received 29,302 student safety reports in the 2025-26 school year, the second-highest total in the anonymous tip line's history, according to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser's office.

The Trump administration has rolled back Endangered Species Act protections for habitat, threatening black-footed ferrets that depend on prairie dog towns, which are still being poisoned and shot across Colorado and the West.

A state commission advanced a proposal to designate Arkansas and Rio Grande basin creeks and rivers in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as Outstanding Waters, protecting their pristine quality while keeping existing water rights.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife will refund fourth rifle season hunters in flood-damaged southwest Colorado, waiving fees and restoring preference points, because closed highways and roads block access to public lands.

A record 81 grizzly bears have died in and around Yellowstone National Park in 2026, mostly from human causes, prompting conservationists to urge a slowdown on shifting management to states.

Imagine losing an arm and simply growing a new one. This amazing ability of regeneration isn’t just something from a superhero movie – it actually happens in real life for some animals.

Republicans are betting that claims of rampant voter fraud will motivate supporters before the 2026 midterms, but a Nevada researcher warns the strategy could suppress turnout and backfire.

In the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution, the economy was in shambles, 25,000 Americans had died, and chaos erupted.

Sleep is not one single thing; you go through several stages of sleep every night.