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coloradosun, 10 months ago to random

Colorado gearheads are turning classic cars into electric vehicles.

From a spacesuit engineer to an auto electrician, Coloradans are reviving auto classics into battery-powered wonders.

Read: https://coloradosun.com/2023/06/25/classic-cars-electric-vehicles-colorado/?utm_content=buffer7169d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

The back of a VW Beetle is open, reveal an electric motor.
The back of a VW Bus is open, revealing its electric motor and batteries.
A woman plugs in her VW Bus to an EV charger

coloradosun, 9 months ago to random

Concern about declining insect populations surged in 2017 after researchers reported that flying insects in Germany had declined by more than 75% over 27 years.

New research shows that similar dramatic insect declines are also occurring in Colorado.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/?utm_content=bufferb43c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 4 months ago to random

“Keep the press out of this”: Police release footage of Colorado Republican leader’s 2022 DUI arrest
https://coloradosun.com/2024/01/19/mike-lynch-arrest-video-released/?utm_content=buffercc6cb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 29 days ago to random

In their heyday, beavers may have submerged up to 300,000 square miles of North America — more land than the state of Texas.

The American West has lost 90% of its historical wetlands since European settlement. Colorado has lost 50%.

This was the natural, healthy state of the American West for thousands of years. And simply put, that much water on the land has quite the dampening effect for large wildfires.

Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/19/fighting-wildland-fire-with-beavers-colorado/

coloradosun, 6 months ago to random

A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom
https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/06/colorado-navajo-language-durango-high-school/?utm_content=buffer026aa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 4 months ago to random

Breaking: It's cold.

coloradosun, 8 months ago to random

BREAKING: Mount Evans to be renamed Mount Blue Sky after federal naming board vote
https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/15/mount-blue-sky-replaces-mount-evans/?utm_content=buffer80a18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 8 months ago to random

Nationwide, about 100 million people have some form of health care debt.

Of those, about 1 in 5 said the debts have forced them to change their living situation, including moving in with friends or family.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/18/colorado-father-medical-debt-recover/?utm_content=bufferd1023&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 5 months ago to random

Donald Trump is blocked from appearing on presidential primary ballot by state Supreme Court
https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/19/donald-trump-colorado-ballot-decision-supreme-court/?utm_content=buffer8c8d2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 6 months ago to random

Former NSA worker from Colorado Springs pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets to Russia.

Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, was arrested last year after he arrived at Denver’s downtown train station with a laptop and used a secure connection set up by investigators to transfer classified documents.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/10/23/former-nsa-worker-pleads-guilty-secrets-russia/

coloradosun, 5 months ago to random

We're proud to announce that The Colorado Sun has officially joined newsrooms around the world to increase transparency and trust with The Trust Project.

What does that mean for us — and readers like you?

Read more here: https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/14/colorado-sun-trust-project/?utm_content=bufferf9d99&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

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coloradosun, 5 days ago to random

Colorado becomes first state with law regulating potential consumer harms of artificial intelligence
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/18/colorado-becomes-first-state-with-law-regulating-potential-consumer-harms-of-artificial-intelligence/

coloradosun, 5 months ago to random

New: Wolves will be reintroduced to Colorado as early as Monday, wildlife officials say in federal court
https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/14/wolf-reintroduction-colorado-court-case/?utm_content=buffer40880&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 1 year ago to random

BREAKING: Colorado governor signs four gun bills into law in a historic change to the state’s firearm regulations https://coloradosun.com/2023/04/28/colorado-governor-signs-four-gun-bills-into-law-erpo-age-red-flag/

coloradosun, 6 months ago to random

Colorado is a same-day voter registration state, so you can even register to vote until polls close at 7 p.m. tonight

https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/07/colorado-election-2023-voting-information/?utm_content=bufferdd2ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 6 months ago to random

Dogs are coming down with an unusual respiratory illness in Colorado, several other states
https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/19/colorado-dog-respiratory-illness/?utm_content=buffer93f0d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 7 months ago to random

BREAKING: Jury convicts one Aurora police officer of criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death, acquits other
https://coloradosun.com/2023/10/12/elijah-mcclain-verdict-aurora/?utm_content=buffer4bd80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 6 months ago to random

Colorado’s electric power sector can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 98.5% by 2040 without major policy changes or major new costs to consumers, according to an optimistic state analysis.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/01/colorado-greenhouse-gas-cuts-power-plants/?utm_content=bufferd30c0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 5 months ago to random

Colorado confirms first case of measles in five years
https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/20/measles-case/?utm_content=buffer68102&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 8 months ago to random

Twenty-one states have banned gender-affirming care for people younger than age 18, according to the Human Rights Campaign. An additional seven states are considering such bans.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/01/colorado-gop-leader-seeks-gender-affirming-care-initiative/?utm_content=bufferecf28&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 10 months ago to random

Colorado is first in the U.S. to make rules tying pollution reduction to oil and gas production https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/21/colorado-oil-and-gas-emissions-intensity-rule/?utm_content=buffer6a9df&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 4 months ago to random

As Denver reinstates time limits on hotel stays, volunteers are making plans to help hundreds more migrants in camps

https://coloradosun.com/2024/01/22/migrants-encampment-north-denver/?utm_content=buffere15d2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

coloradosun, 2 months ago to random

US sues to block merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, saying it could push prices higher
https://coloradosun.com/2024/02/26/kroger-safeway-merger/

coloradosun, 12 days ago to random

Vail reversed its residency for Danielle SeeWalker, a Lakota painter and muralist, after residents complained about a painting referencing Gaza that she posted to her Instagram.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/10/danielle-seewalker-artist-residency-gaza-vail/

coloradosun, 5 days ago to random

Colorado voters will decide in November whether to protect abortion access in the state constitution
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/17/colorado-abortion-ballot-measure-2024-qualifies/