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Southwest Health System in Cortez announced that it will require its staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19; The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment posted a new system on its website for users to view and compare data on breakthrough cases of COVID-19; For the second time in a week, officials with the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife recovered the body of a drowning victim from the waters of a state reservoir.

Residents of a mobile home park in Steamboat Springs are still waiting for answers after they lost power for two months following a fire earlier this year; A state patrol trooper who protects the governor has been arrested and charged with felony menacing for allegedly pointing a gun at a woman driving outside of the Colorado Capitol last month.

Colorado voters will weigh in on three statewide ballot questions this November that aim to raise marijuana prices, lower property taxes and put new restrictions on government spending; The state of Colorado will start paying grade school students who agree to get tested weekly for COVID-19.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was in Fort Collins Wednesday, hosting a conversation about resilience in the face of crisis; The Dolores County Courthouse was put on lockdown on Thursday due to credible threats made against local elected officials, but a suspect has since been arrested and there is no longer an active threat; The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District is providing at-home meals for students after district schools moved online this week due to spiking COVID-19 infections.

From the 1940s to the 1980s, hundreds of uranium mills opened across the Southwestern US. Historically, the mills provided working-class jobs for the region, especially for tribal communities. But uranium and other heavy metals can be toxic, and many mill workers suffered as a result. Now, the only operating uranium mill left in the US sits just a few dozen miles from Montezuma County, in Southeast Utah. On this week's Health & Prevention Report, KSJD's Lucas Brady Woods talks to Dr. Ed Razma, pulmonologist at Southwest Health System, to get a better idea of what uranium contamination can actually do to a person's health.

A committee helping Colorado lawmakers decide how to spend four hundred million dollars of federal coronavirus relief money on affordable housing programs has released a draft of its recommendations; Students in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District will once again be allowed to participate in off-campus extracurricular activities after in-person classes and extracurriculars were cancelled earlier in the week.

The Colorado Supreme Court has given final approval to a new map of the state’s congressional districts. And Colorado Governor Jared Polis is asking the state legislature for a grant to help the growing number of people experiencing homelessness.

Colorado voters soundly rejected all three of the statewide questions on their ballots during Tuesday's election. And early ballot predictions are in Montezuma and Dolores County.

It’s election season in Colorado, and ballots for the 2021 election are due today - that’s today, Tuesday, November 2. KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods has a run down on the questions and races being posed to voters right here in Southwest Colorado.

Today is election day across the country including here in Colorado, where polls close at 7:00 this evening; the Montezuma-Cortez School Board also called an emergency meeting on Tuesday.