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The American Southwest – including Arizona, New Mexico, and portions of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and California – is linked to one of four continental-scale “mega-drying” regions worldwide.

Colorado state lawmakers begin work today in a special session to address a $1.2 billion revenue shortfall and revise the state’s budget following changes to the federal tax code.

Police say 40-year-old Patrick Egan pursued a local reporter for 40 miles then strangled him outside his Grand Junction newsroom.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would lose a third of its funding, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory would lose more than half.

Gov. Jared Polis wants Colorado to fast-track deployment of new clean energy projects before Republicans’ rollback of billions of dollars in incentives takes effect.

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region Headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado.

The bill slashes spending for social safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps — programs that are a cost share between states and the federal government — and rolls back Biden-era clean energy tax incentives.

Colorado’s tax code was written in 1935 to capture revenue from tangible goods, long before anyone imagined a world where movies could stream to a portable phone.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office will consider joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s declaration in January of a national energy emergency.

Democratic members of the Colorado congressional delegation criticized a recent proposal by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, to allow the federal government to sell off more than 2 million acres of public land.