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Fewer than 800 ballots for municipal elections in Montezuma County had been returned as of Thursday morning, and schools in Cortez were put on “secure” status briefly Thursday morning after a report of shots fired near Por Dia Preschool on South Oak Street.

The Kwiyagat Community Academy in Towaoc held an event on Thursday to mark the first six weeks of the school’s inaugural academic year; Southwest Health System in Cortez held a clinic on Thursday offering booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has launched a new COVID testing program in the state’s schools. Not only is it free, but this year it also comes with incentives. KGNU’s Shannon Young spoke with Sarah Hamma, CDPHE’s COVID-19 Community Testing Branch Chief.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis wants to pay grade school students to regularly get tested for COVID-19 this school year; In Southwest Colorado, firefighting efforts on The Willow Fire reached one hundred percent containment on Thursday.

In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.

Colorado lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would temporarily stop people convicted of assault and other violent misdemeanors from…

Colorado will not have to take certain steps addressing low academic performance at public schools this year.Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed two…