Michael Booth

A black-footed ferret cloned from a 1980s-era ferret gave birth to healthy babies for the first time, in an endangered species breakthrough.

A new agreement will help remove lead contamination from yards and roads in Rico, Colorado, as Atlantic Richfield Co. undertakes a voluntary cleanup effort to avoid federal intervention.Michael Booth reports for The Colorado Sun.In short:Atlantic Richfield, a subsidiary of BP America, agreed to remo...

Colorado woman reunited with last of her wandering pack animal friends. But with llamas, there is no hugging, no learning.

Lisa Balcomb and her long-lost, then recovered, llama Clavio at about 10,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains near Ridgway, Oct. 27, 2024. (Courtesy photo/Lisa Balcomb)

Maybe there’s an epidemic of escaped pack llamas wandering the high San Juans. Because when an elk hunter high up on Cow Creek near Ridgway was finally able to step on the dragging lead rope of the ll...

Ridership has fallen, but RTD still has ambitious plans to improve service and meet cultural changes

Maybe there’s an epidemic of escaped pack llamas wandering the high San Juans.

Colorado and Western states lose more water from hotter temperatures due to climate change than they do from lost precipitation, a study shows.

Mistakes in the past inventory means the state has cut more than expected to date, but are they “accounting gimmicks”?

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