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Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a bill Monday to roll out free preschool classes starting next year. Governor Polis also signed a $36 billion dollar state budget for next year. And the Montezuma County Fairgrounds Racetrack has a new promoter.

Explosions and a major fire at a medical supply warehouse in downtown Montrose on Wednesday injured at least four people and caused the police department to evacuate the area.

Governor Jared Polis says Colorado will spend twenty million dollars to better prepare for wildfires this summer. And avian influenza has been detected in multiple counties across the Western Slope.

The Biden Administration announced that millions of dollars will be given to rural communities in the U.S. over the next year, the FBI is warning agricultural cooperatives that ransomware attacks might be more likely during the current planting and harvest seasons, tire maker Bridgestone begins work developing a domestic supply of natural rubber using a shrub called guayule, and a look at the accuracy of weather forecasts.

Drought conditions across the Midwest are impacting cattle and the corn harvest, low water levels in the Mississippi River lock up shipping, a Colorado rancher loses cattle to wolves, and the Montezuma County Extension and Pueblo Community College Southwest will offer a Beef Cattle Artificial Insemination Clinic in early November.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis was in Southwest Colorado on Tuesday, including a stop in Rico where he met with the town’s volunteer fire department.

Monsoon rains bring much needed, albeit inconsistent, rain to the area, a new report contends that 11 million acres of America’s agricultural land were developed or converted to uses that threaten farming, a breakdown of water use by agriculture, and the 2023 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year Contest is underway.

The Senate Agriculture Committee passed two bills on Wednesday dealing with the regulation of the cattle industry, an activist organization specializing in research about agricultural subsides reports that the government paid a record $41.6 billion in a variety of subsidies to farmers in 2020, double the amount they received in 2018, and reintroduction of wolves in Colorado remains a controversial topic with livestock producers.

It’s wildfire season across the Four Corners, and peak wildfire season in some places. KUER’s Lexi Peery has more on how people in Utah and others in the region can be prepared.

A new round of cutbacks is coming for some water users on the Colorado River. And a new poll shows a majority of Arizonans support permanently banning uranium mining around the Grand Canyon.