Local Newscast: Regional News Headlines

Headlines:

• Gov. Hickenlooper signs four new bills protecting outdoors
• Montrose City Council to consider permanent ban on marijuana sales
• Gov. Hickenlooper set to visit Ouray School this week
• Grand Junction resident to receive $1.2 million in state compensation
• Cocker Kids Foundation donates to Delta County

Headlines:

• Conservation groups urge BLM to end secrecy
• Montrose Library reduces hours, will begin Saturday closures in July
• BLM approves plan for new multi-use trail system near Ridgeway
• Sheriffs in 54 of 64 state counties join protest against new gun control laws
• Montrose resident comments on treatment of circus animals
• North Fork prep track teams earn many honors at state meet
• ISeeChange report on bird populations at Hart's Basin

Headlines:

• Governor activates drought task force
• State water plan mandated by Hickenlooper
• Grand Junction clean-up yields piece of Radium 226
• No fine for Williams
• WildEarth Guardians ask BLM to halt drilling because of ozone levels
• One more thing
  

Headlines:

• DMEA candidates face off in Montrose forum
• Oil and gas industry says restrictions would make drilling “uncompetitive” in White River National Forest
• Study shows birds suffer from proximity to humans
• State Corrections Department asks judges to review sentences
  

Headlines:

• April showers: an aberration, not a trend
• Sounds of the High Country: Idaho’s political polarization
• Number of children needing fostering and adoption soars
• Ozone violations in Western Colorado for the first time
• Parachute Leak Update
• Growing A Local Beer, Farm To Glass

Headlines:

• Prescribed burn on the Uncompahgre Plateau today and tomorrow
• First legal hemp crop in Colorado planted
• Innovative program in Carbondale helps immigrants join the melting pot
• Anti-gas development film is free tonight at the Paradise
• Tours of the valley from on high
• What $50,000 can do for Thompson Divide
  

Headlines:

• Environment Foundation gives $50,000 to protect Thompson Divide from drilling
• Parks & Wildlife increasing bear hunting licenses in response to dangerously high numbers of black bears in the state
• Delta Historical Society offers tribute to two unique sisters
• Feds, Utah agree on health plan
• iSeeChange: history unfolds with the story of twin orchardists in the North Fork
  

Headlines:

• Highway 133 opens to two-way traffic for the weekend
• Small victory for opponents of drilling in Thompson Divide
• Ensuring melon safety at Rocky Ford
• If you see a guy in high heels…
• Senate rejects increase in fines for oil and gas industry
• Williams delays plant expansion at leak site
• Take the Delta County Economic Development Broadband Survey
• Western Slope Skies Takes a closer look at our closest celestial neighbor
  

Headlines:

• Legislative roundup
• Greeley Town Council okays 16 gas wells despite opposition from citizens
• Colorado third-graders score poorly on reading tests
• Bears wake up, wander into Telluride
• DMEA candidate frum Wed May 15
  

Headlines:

• Stahl shed burns in Paonia
• State’s fire-fighting fleet is unfunded
• Stoned while driving bill passes, along with other marijuana measures
• Hotchkiss dog trials this weekend
• CHC launches air-monitoring baseline study
• Antero fined by COGCC for Rifle pipeline leak in 2010