Top articles for the week ending August 8, 2026
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- Feds to impose new cuts on lower Colorado River states amid climate-fueled megadrought
- Colorado inspection law unfairly singles out ICE detention center, operator’s lawyers say
- Arizona, Nevada blast federal plan for Colorado River
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife offers free August state park entry for military members
- Bid to freeze Arizona’s ‘Secure the Border Act’ fails, but fight isn’t over
- Fierce floods or wild waves? How San Diego is preparing for a winter of extreme weather under El Niño.
- New threats loom for Arizona's Indigenous voters
- Reproductive rights debate expected in next Texas legislative session
- Colorado and Congress consider taxing rich for basic needs
- Nebraska doctor offers checklist for a healthy new school year
- Trump has a plan to make Idaho home to vast stockpile of nation’s high-level nuclear waste
- Kansas county's mail ballots printed with wrong address, returned to voters after they sent them in
- Commentary - Rare bipartisan housing bill just became law — but Americans will still struggle with affordability
- Commercial speech lawsuit to proceed against major Kansas pet food company
- Oklahoma appeals court tosses out stalking conviction related to man’s YouTube rant
- New Mexico Secretary of State agrees to turn over voter death error records following lawsuit
- New Mexico environment officials propose another delay on heat safety protections for workers
- April trial date sought in suit against Paramount, Warner Bros.
- Home Country - Becoming a Chicken Ranger
- Pastor's Pearls Sunday, August 2, 2026
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- Idaho reports three heat-related deaths amid hot, smoky weather
- CBI investigating homicide in Trinidad
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife announces emergency public fish salvage at Daigre Reservoir
- Governor Polis provides update on wildfires and floods across Colorado
- Kansas lawsuit challenges Wichita law enforcement’s reliance on license plate reader cameras
- Funeral Services - Karla Jean Buck
- Governor Polis Announces Boards and Commissions Appointments
- Boulder County Coroner's Office identifies man found in Bluebell Canyon in 1971, seeks surviving family
- Memorial Service - David Neal Ross
- Southeast Colorado School Calendars – August 3–31, 2026
- Southeast Colorado School Sports Calendars – August 3–31, 2026
- Letter to the Editor - Kiowa County Issues
- History - Blackwell Station
- Obituary - David Neal Ross
- 3 dead, 2 injured in Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting
- Trump administration rules out mass ICE enforcement at the polls in midterms
- Trump looks to veterans to fill trucking jobs after booting immigrants from industry
- Nevada faces ‘unrealistic reductions’ in ‘fundamentally flawed’ Colorado River plan, officials say
- ‘I have no reason to quit’: South Dakota EMTs still lending a hand in their 80s
- Obituary - Karla Jean Buck
- String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance
- Judge rejects states’ bid to block Medicaid work rules
- Lawsuit: Iowa worker stranded in Canada for a year due to visa-related delays
- 31 states decide to join federal school choice program
- Fires destroy hundreds of structures in Washington
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- Millions say they would join a labor union if they could
- Destructive AI book scanning practices raise concern for rare books
- Opponents headed to court over Trump cuts to Utah monuments
- Eads hits 104 Monday before cool front knocks highs into the 80s for Kiowa County
- Cheyenne Wells reaches 102 Monday as fire danger and storm chances rise in Cheyenne County
- Heat advisory: Lamar to reach 106 Monday before midweek cooldown in Prowers County
- Today’s children could prosper in tomorrow’s shortage of young workers
- New nuclear campus deal would require Idaho to accept, store spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste
- Rising tension in central Washington as farmland is eyed for energy and data center projects
- Prosecutors drop vandalism charges for Reflecting Pool damage, blame ‘contractor error’
- More conditions now covered by Texas medical marijuana law
- Poll: 'Climate hush' among Democrats may not win votes
- North Dakota water experts: 'When in doubt, stay out'
- University of Utah’s ‘AI supercomputer’ debuts among fastest systems in the world
- Colorado students want stronger state regulations of AI, social media
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- EarthTalk – Why does fur spark disease fears?
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- Bipartisan opposition grows against feds' Colorado River plan
- Democratic attorneys general, governors sue feds over tariffs
- Humanitarians urge Congress to rescind Trump admin 'global gag rule'
- Colorado sees big uptick in gun background checks ahead of new purchasing law
- Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation
- Supporters of Colorado graduated income tax measure submit required number of petition signatures
- Indiana’s Medicaid enrollment decline could be harbinger of US future
- Wildfire veterans fear federal tactics, extreme fires could put crews at risk
- Trump official urges governors to help with immigration arrests of ‘worst of the worst’
- ‘Overwhelming amount of damage’: Fight ongoing against Spokane fires
- Spending deal freezes proposal to gain power over federal grants, extends highway law
- Democratic state officials urge US Supreme Court to affirm pause on Trump vote-by-mail order
- Attorneys for pardoned abortion clinic protester announce 7-figure settlement with DOJ
- Record heat and dewpoints recorded across Iowa
- Governor and attorney general appeal to defend South Dakota’s ban on abortion-pill advertising
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- How agritourism can change how you run your farm
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- Exceptional drought holds in Colorado high country as conditions ease slightly
- Oregon expert: How to make sure wildfire insurance pays off
- Colorado hospitals seeing more patients without insurance
- Fair housing groups nationwide condemn new HUD cuts
- ACLU of Wyoming: Counties deputized local ICE agents illegally
- Conservative group’s ‘right to natural gas’ initiative makes Colorado’s 2026 ballot
- Colorado background checks soared ahead of new gun restrictions
- Private prison sues Colorado over law that inspects ICE facility
- Colorado Democrats begin general election with big cash advantages over GOP rivals
- Ban stock trading, Colorado Democrats urge U.S. House speaker
- More states ban child marriage, though it’s still legal in most of the US
- Western wildfire could be latest climate disaster to unsettle property insurance market
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- Just after statehood in 1876, two gamblers’ deaths evoked Colorado’s Wild West history
- Education Department hands more states flexibility with federal dollars
- Report: Renewables could reduce data center energy costs across Texas
- Smoky skies still a problem in Idaho, with little relief in sight
- Eads bakes at 102 Saturday as triple-digit heat holds over Kiowa County into next week
- Severe storms with 70 mph gusts possible Saturday as Cheyenne Wells hits 100
- Heat advisory for Lamar as highs hit 106 Saturday and Sunday
- Lamar City Council Meeting Monday August 10
- Governor Polis appoints two county court judges in Colorado
- Fishers Peak summit trail reopens after peregrine falcons fledge for fifth consecutive year
- New voluntary fishing closure on Gunnison River above Blue Mesa Reservoir
- Partners dedicate 2,500 acre-feet of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water to Upper Arkansas River during historic drought
- Governor Polis declares disaster emergency for 310 Fire, provides wildfire and flood update
- Kiowa County RE-1 updates school policies for the new year
- Trump administration’s attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge
- Montezuma County sheriff will not issue eligibility cards under new Colorado gun law
- Attorneys general tell justices to let state court decide Boulder’s climate change lawsuit
- States begin banning ‘surveillance pricing’ that uses personal data to charge more
- Kansas judge says decision to strike abortion restrictions not ‘even a close call’
- As federal protections fade, disabled Americans fear a return to institutions
- Kansas wheat harvest projected to be lowest in decades, adding to agriculture stress
- Farm bill stalls, leaving Kansas farm leader concerned about whether it will pass this year
- US employers shed 23K jobs in July
- Nebraska will have two new political parties after efforts meet signature threshold
- More Utah forests are burning than ever before. Here’s why that matters
- A compact, transportable nuclear reactor may come to Utah under new agreement
- Legal battle over Jewish charter school begins in Oklahoma City federal court
- Some data centers are building their own power plants. In Oklahoma, most want to plug into the grid
- Home Country - Chicken, Alaska
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