Elise Schmelzer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Colorado man faces multiple felony charges after being accused of tampering with water infrastructure that transports water to Front Range cities.

“Remember, it's your job to protect us, the people of Colorado.” Loophole or needed alternative?

“They must pay their own way for every single thing,” Deborah Jones told the PUC commissioners about data centers. “No deals, no incentives, no loopholes, no backroom deals, no secret contracts.”

Proposition 137 would also set aside some tax revenue for wildfire prevention

DENVER — Voters will decide in November whether to dedicate state sales taxes collected on outdoor gear to conservation and wildfire prevention grant programs.

If approved, Proposition 137 would also exempt that sales tax revenue from falling under the state's spending cap set by the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights , the mechanism that determines refunds to taxpayers.

DENVER — Voters will decide in November whether to dedicate state sales taxes collected on outdoor gear to conservation and wildfire prevention grant programs.

“Travel management sounds anodyne and wonky, but in many ways it's how visitors are going to experience their national forests,” said Dan Hartinger, the senior director of policy advocacy for The Wilderness Society.

“Travel management sounds anodyne and wonky, but in many ways it’s how visitors are going to experience their national forests,” said Dan Hartinger of The Wilderness Society.

DENVER — Significant swaths of Colorado's public forests and hills could open up to motorized travel under a rule change proposed by the U.S. Forest Service.