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Avalanche that killed five difficult to predict

Last updated Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 2:27pm

DENVER — The kind of avalanche that killed five people in Colorado over the weekend is among the most difficult to predict and trigger, and it’s dangerous because of the amount of snow normally involved.

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Utah CenturyLink workers may go on strike

Colleen Slevin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 2:15pm

DENVER — Union leaders representing CenturyLink workers in Utah and 12 other Western states have moved closer to allowing a strike but contract talks with the telecommunications company are continuing.

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Traffic winds its way east and west along a snowy Boulder-Denver Turnpike, in Superior, Colo., Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012. A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains is heading east and is forecast to bring the first major winter storm of the season to the central plains and Midwest. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Snowstorm causing problems from Rockies to Midwest

Colleen Slevin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 1:19am

DENVER — A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains was causing problems for travelers as it spread across the Plains on Wednesday.

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Craig Orum, a member of the Powder Mountain ski patrol, takes a run to celebrate the opening of the Hidden Lake area for the 2012-13 season. (DENNIS MONTGOMERY/Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Winter storm gift to Utah ski areas; moves into Colo.

Brady McCombs, Colleen Slevin The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 4:50pm

DENVER — A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow on the Rocky Mountains moved into the Denver area Wednesday, slowing down the morning commute and delaying flights as it provided much-needed moisture.

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FILE - Tourists sit quietly as they view Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, in August 2000. A federal appeals court in Denver was to hear arguments Thursday Jan. 19, 2012 on the Obama administration's decision to cancel Bush-era oil and gas leases near national parks in Utah. (AP Photo/Provo Daily Herald, Brian Fitzgerald, File)

Appeals court weighs energy leases near Utah parks

Colleen Slevin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 2:07pm

DENVER -- A federal appeals court must decide if the Obama administration gave energy companies enough notice that it was scrapping Bush-era energy leases near national parks in Utah, the auction for which prompted an environmental activist to drive up prices with his bidding in an act of civil disobedience.

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Victims of Oklahoma State plane crash remembered

Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 28, 2011 - 5:36pm

DENVER -- Representatives of Oklahoma State University joined sheriff's officials and firefighters on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of a plane crash that killed 10 people from the school's basketball program.

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