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BLM oil and gas leases threaten critical Colorado wildlife corridors, lawsuit says (opens the original)
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Two environmental groups sued the Trump administration last week, alleging the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law when it leased more than 134,000 acres of public lands in Colorado for oil and gas drilling earlier this year. In their lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, Wilderness Workshop and The Wilderness Society say the BLMâs June 2026 lease sale would âallow the development of oil and gas wells in habitat critical to some of the United Statesâ largest, an
14 measures will appear on Colorado’s statewide ballot in 2026 (opens the original)
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The Colorado secretary of stateâs office on Friday certified the list of ballot measures going before voters in November 2026 â and once again, the list is a long one. A total of 14 measures will be decided by Colorado voters this year. The figure ties a record for the most questions put to voters in at least the last 52 years, according to a state database. An equal number of measures appeared on Coloradansâ ballots in 2024, 2008 and 2006. What sets this year apart, however, is the number
Corruption scandals, silver coins and grasshoppers were the hot topics in 1876 election (opens the original)
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This story is part of Colorado at 150 ongoing series. Political clubs formed in Front Range cities and mountain mining camps, and candidates criss-crossed the new Centennial State by rail and stagecoach to make their pitches to voters. Thomas Patterson, a Democrat whoâd served as Coloradoâs territorial delegate to Congress since 1874, represented his partyâs best hope in an election otherwise thought to favor Republicans, and the âLittle Tiger,â as some papers called him, wasted no tim
As litigation looms and drought takes its toll, state officials defiant over Colorado River’s future (opens the original)
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Routt County rancher Philip Rossi knew as early as January of this year â as the Flat Tops range above the Yampa River basin sat largely bare of snow â that 2026 would be a difficult water year. âYou can just feel it,â said Rossi, whose family has run cattle in the upper Yampa River valley for more than a century. âThis is no good. Weâre just not getting any moisture.â Water managers at the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District say that agricultural irrigators across the district
Conservative group’s ‘right to natural gas’ initiative makes Colorado’s 2026 ballot (opens the original)
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Amid a historic drought, record heat and a deadly wildfire season, Coloradans will be asked by a right-wing âdark moneyâ group this year to enshrine a ârightâ to a major source of climate pollution in the state constitution. Backers of Initiative 177, led by the group Advance Colorado, submitted enough petition signatures to qualify for the November ballot, the Colorado secretary of stateâs office said Thursday. Sponsors submitted 189,508 total signatures, 146,165 of which were deemed
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