There are now some three thousand active oil and gas wells in Garfield County, a number that’s projected to rise to 15-thousand by 2015.

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Two and a half years of investigation into the academic work of controversial University of Colorado Professer Ward Churchill culminated on Tuesday. Regents voted 8-1 to fire Churchill, he vows to fight the decision in court. Maeve Conran reports from Boulder.

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This week Ft. Carson is honoring seven soldiers from the 2nd Infantry’s 2nd Brigade. Five were killed in the single deadliest incident for troops from the post since the war began.

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The Air Force Academy will miss it goals for recruiting minority students for the class of 2011. Air Force officials partially blame minority members in Congress for low recruitment.
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Due to federal funding cuts, Colorado will scale back testing of mosquities for West Nile virus this summer. KRCC’s Eric Whitney has more.

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Chaffee County officials and disaster teams spent Monday surveying the destruction of a massive mudslide near Alpine, Colorado. KRCC Intern Lindsey Foat spoke with Chaffee County Engineer and Planner Don Reimer, just after he returned from making a preliminary damage assessment.

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State lawmakers got an earful today on the Western Slope from local officials upset over the boom in oil and gas drilling. Legislators are trying to determine the best way to spend millions of dollars brought in by severance taxes paid on oil and gas.

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The body that regulates oil and gas drilling in Colorado is looking for the source of a methane gas leak in Huerfano county. This in the wake of an explosion in June. That explosion blew the roof off of a well house. Methane is known to sometimes migrate into domestic water wells, causing dangerous gas build-ups and is suspected in the cause of the blown-up well house.

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It’s official: Colorado Democrats will hold their state convention in Colorado Springs in May. The party also decided over the weekend to move its presidential caucuses up a month, from March to February.

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A proposed major new coal burning power plant in northwest New Mexico is getting an almost unanimous thumbs-down a public hearings in the Four Corners area. The public is being given the chance to comment on a recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement.

Developers say that in spite of the vocal opposition, they’re confident the plant will remain on track.
Victor Locke of KSUT, Four Corners Public Radio attended one of the recent hearings and has this report.

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