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The first view of Devil's Tower as seen along Wyoming Highway 24 shows just how high the monolith rises above the surrounding landscape in northeast Wyoming. (Dawn Wilson Photography)

Off the Beaten Trail: A trek to America’s first national monument

By Dawn Wilson

November 14, 2023 at 8:20 a.m.

A Crow legend describes a story about two young girls playing around some big rocks....

An uneventful sunset looms in the sky above the Mummy Range as seen from the Aspenglen Loop Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (Dawn Wilson Photography)

Hike of the Week: Aspenglen Loop Trail

By Dawn Wilson

March 27, 2024 at 11:03 p.m.

Hidden in the forest between Fall River and Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park,...

The view of Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs from an eastern perspective includes the dramatic sandstone ridges of the Fountain Formation and Pikes Peak. (Dawn Wilson Photography)

Off the Beaten Trail: A Park Worthy of the Gods

By Dawn Wilson

February 20, 2024 at 6:52 a.m.

I arrived almost 45 minutes before sunrise at an overlook where I could take in...

From left, then-U.S. Reps.-elect Jeff Hurd, Gabe Evans and Jeff Crank, all Colorado Republicans, pose for a photograph after joining other congressional freshmen of the 119th Congress for a group photograph on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on Nov. 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. Evans won the tightest race of the three, while Hurd prevailed in a 5-point race and Crank represents a safe Republican district. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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With Trump’s honeymoon “very likely over,” Colorado’s Gabe Evans, Jeff Hurd navigate tough political terrain

By John Aguilar

April 19, 2025 at 6:03 a.m.

Freshmen congressmen face question of how much to embrace president as Dems target them in...

Colorado state Sen. Lindsey Daugherty, an Arvada Democrat, speaks at a news conference urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign a bill that would add regulations for social media companies on Monday, April 14, 2025, outside the Colorado State Capitol. Polis has expressed reservations about how the proposal would affect First Amendment rights. (Photo by Nick Coltrain/The Denver Post)

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In Colorado bill debate over social media and porn sites, when does protection of kids become overreach?

By Nick Coltrain

April 19, 2025 at 6:03 a.m.

A trio of bills aimed at regulating the internet to protect Colorado children have run...

A protester is silhouetted against a trans pride flag

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EEOC instructs staff to sideline all new transgender discrimination cases, employees say

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 5:34 p.m.

The agency is classifying all new gender identity-related discrimination cases as its lowest priority.

In this photo released by Senator Van Hollen’s press office, Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, in a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP)

Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 5:28 p.m.

The senator referred to the stagecraft with a term that ricocheted around social media: 'Margaritagate.'

Students place flowers on a stretch of sidewalk near the center of the Florida State campus

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FSU shooting victims include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 4:19 p.m.

Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at...

Demonstrators on Transgender Day of Visibility rally at the Pennsylvania Capitol, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

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Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting transgender Americans

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.

The policy would ban the 'X' marker used by many nonbinary people on passports.

FILE- This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)

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Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 4:09 p.m.

Her lawyers had requested that she be released immediately, or at least brought back to...

This image from video animation provided by NASA in October 2022 depicts the Lucy spacecraft. (NASA via AP)

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 3:36 p.m.

Its ultimate destination is the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

FILE – A pedestrian walks along a path on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I., Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students

By Associated Press

April 18, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

The suit seeks to represent more than 100 students in New England and Puerto Rico.

Olivia Kazanjian holds a pair of earrings

People are melting their old jewelry for cash as gold prices soar

By Tribune News Service

April 18, 2025 at 3:25 p.m.

The price of gold hit an all-time high of $3,357 per ounce this week.