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Colorado’s median age is nearing 40 - and getting older. Here’s what that looks like.

3 days ago | montrosepress.com | Tamara Chuang

Colorado is getting older, rapidly. Are we prepared? "Aging in Colorado" is a new series from The Colorado Sun looking at how these shifts are affecting housing, the workforce and quality of life, and whether Colorado is prepared for it. Support The Sun's work: coloradosun.com/join. kA 4=2DDlQ92D\5C@A\42AQmtG6CJ@?6 :D 86EE:?8 @=56C[ @7 4@FCD6] qFE 7@C J62CD — 564256D[ 24EF2==J — r@=@C25@’D A@AF=2E:@? H2D 86EE:?8 J@F?86C] pD E96 DE2E6 2?5 :ED @FE5@@C 24E:G:E:6D 3642>6 2 AC:>6 2EEC24E:@?
Western Slope protesters visit Hurd's GJ office to voice anger at his Big Beautiful Bill vote

3 days ago | montrosepress.com | Nathan Deal

Seven members of western Colorado Indivisible groups, including Montrose and Ouray Counties Indivisible, visited U.S. House Rep. Jeff Hurd’s Grand Junction office Friday morning to air their grievances about Hurd’s vote to pass President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. kAm%@A:4D :?4=F565 |65:42:5[ :>>:8C2E:@? 2?5 E96 E2I 3C62<D :?4=F565 :? E96 3:==]k^AmkAm“|2?J @7 FD 2C6 5:D2AA@:?E65 E92E 96 G@E65 J6D[” D2:5 |:496==6 y@?;2<[ H9@ C625 2 ?@E6 7C@> 2 ?FCD6 E92E H2D HC:EE6?
DOJ files hate crime charge against suspect in Boulder attack; Man charged in connection with attack told investigators he targeted ‘Zionist group,’ FBI affidavit says

4 days ago | montrosepress.com | Chase Woodruff

The man suspected of attacking a group of demonstrators with incendiary devices in Boulder on Sunday, leaving multiple people hospitalized with severe injuries, faces state and federal charges for attempted murder and a hate crime, law enforcement officials announced.
Colorado’s median age is nearing 40 - and getting older. Here’s what that looks like.

5 days ago | montrosepress.com | Tamara Chuang

Colorado is getting older, rapidly. Are we prepared? "Aging in Colorado" is a new series from The Colorado Sun looking at how these shifts are affecting housing, the workforce and quality of life, and whether Colorado is prepared for it. Support The Sun's work: coloradosun.com/join. kA 4=2DDlQ92D\5C@A\42AQmtG6CJ@?6 :D 86EE:?8 @=56C[ @7 4@FCD6] qFE 7@C J62CD — 564256D[ 24EF2==J — r@=@C25@’D A@AF=2E:@? H2D 86EE:?8 J@F?86C] pD E96 DE2E6 2?5 :ED @FE5@@C 24E:G:E:6D 3642>6 2 AC:>6 2EEC24E:@?
REGIONAL: San Miguel County 'strongly opposes' Trump admin proposal to roll back habitat protections

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Sophie Stuber

The San Miguel Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) voted to ratify a letter during their regular meeting on Wednesday, May 21, opposing a proposal to redefine “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration introduced the proposed rule in April, which would roll back habitat protections by only maintaining a ban on directly killing or collecting species. kAm%9:D CF=6 492?86 4@F=5 F=E:>2E6=J 2FE9@C:K6 =@88:?8[ >:?:?8[ @:= 2?5 82D 5C:==:?8[ 2?5 7FCE96C 56G6=@A>6?E @?
OPINION: Inspect the ICE detention facility in Aurora. Repeat.

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Quentin Young

Few Trump administration agencies are so out of control as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE in recent months has disappeared people from American communities, a hallmark of unaccountable authoritarianism. The agency releases scant information to the public about its activities, and it withholds information even in court proceedings.
Republicans defend spending bill, which could strip Medicaid from 200K Coloradans

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Chase Woodruff

Speaking over heckling chants from a nearby crowd of protesters, two of Colorado’s top Republicans stood outside the state Capitol on Thursday, defending their party’s sweeping federal budget bill in a press conference that leaned heavily on a series of misleading claims about Medicaid and immigration. U.S. Reps.
Winter X Games will return to Aspen in January 2026 for its 25th year before new format rolls out

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Jason Blevins

The Winter X Games will return to Aspen in January 2026 for its 25th year. With a new direction and expanded strategy for the X Games that pushes the summer and winter versions of the action sports contests into multiple cities, it was unclear exactly where Aspen, the host of the Winter X Games since 2002, might fit in the overhauled franchise. kAm%96 ) v2>6D 92D 2??@F?465 E92E qFEE6C>:=< D<: 2C62 H@F=5 36 :?4=F565 :? E96 a_ae C6?5:E:@?
Cortez man sentenced to prison for threat against Griswold, others

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Katharhynn Heidelberg

The Cortez man who threatened Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and other elections officials last year was on Thursday sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison, according to United States District Court records. Teak Brockbank pleaded guilty to threats in interstate commerce some months after his arrest last Aug. 23. kAmp44@C5:?8 E@ 9:D 2CC6DE 277:52G:E[ qC@4<32?< D2:5 vC:DH@=5 D9@F=5 “92?8 3J E96 ?64< E:== D96 :D 5625 5625 5625]” x?
Uinta Basin Railway cleared to roll with U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could push more crude through Colorado

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Jason Blevins

The controversial Uinta Basin Railway was greenlighted by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. The high court overturned a federal appeals court decision that rejected the Surface Transportation’s Board’s approval of the proposed railroad connecting Utah’s rural Uinta Basin oilfields with the national rail network, clearing the tracks for more crude tankers rolling through Colorado along the Colorado River. kAm%96 4@F?ECJ’D 9:896DE 4@FCE D2:5 %9FCD52J E96 $FC7246 %C2?DA@CE2E:@?