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For students in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District, this week was the first week of classes after the winter holidays. And this semester, there’s a big change. Classes are now on a four-day week. It's a necessary move to support short-staffed and over-worked teachers. But as KSJD News reports, it's just one step in addressing the district's continuing teacher shortage.

Colorado plans to make a one-time investment in affordable housing using half a billion in federal relief dollars.

Survey of agricultural producers shows positive outlook but lingering concerns, records indicate Denver received less precipitation than Death Valley in the last six months of 2021, and fast food restaurants continue to offer new plant-based menu options.

One hospital in Utah is treating 140 children under five with very serious COVID-19 infections. And the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission heard from members of the public on its financial assurance rulemaking last week.

The Kayenta Animal Control center is temporarily closed due to a Parvo and Giardia outbreak in the kennels. And the Bureau of Land Management’s new Director Tracy Stone-Manning says the agency plans to permanently remove at least 19,000 wild horses and burros this year from western public lands.

Good economic conditions in agriculture led to the lowest non-real estate agriculture lending in nearly a decade, John Deere demonstrates their first fully autonomous tractor, and the EPA will now consider the Endangered Species Act when evaluating new pesticides.

Utah’s public education system is expected to get another budget increase this year.

In the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District, superintendent Risha VanderWey has been placed on administrative leave by the school board, and COVID-19 contact tracing has been suspended.

Utah lawmakers voted mostly along party lines last week to officially end the Test to Stay program in schools. And three people were found dead at a house in Cortez.

Several Colorado lawmakers are working from home this week. But party leaders cannot say whether the higher rate of VIRTUAL participation is because of a COVID outbreak at the Capitol. And two Montezuma County Commissioners will attend a meeting by the Republican Central Committee on Thursday evening in Cortez.