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Colorado is likely to see a La Niña winter again this year, drought and heat waves have damaged cotton crops across the southern and southwest U.S., and agricultural companies are getting hacked by cyber thieves.

Ballots for the November election will start hitting Colorado mailboxes this weekend; Mesa Verde National Park has begun operations to relocate trespass livestock from the park.

Only about 12 percent of energy production in the US comes from renewable sources like wind and solar. Many people hope increasing that number will help the world avoid the most serious effects of climate change. But a new University of Utah study says it can’t be the only solution.

Colorado Democrats are projected to hold onto their majority in the state' House of Representatives in the coming years under a new map approved on Monday; Members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Navajo Nation led a march on Saturday in White Mesa, Utah in protest against the only operating uranium mill in the United States.

A Mesa County Court Judge ruled in favor of removing Tina Peters as the Designated Election Official for the county on Wednesday; A Colorado School District is getting sued for requiring masks.

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.