Tag: Videos
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Tipping Point: Colorado River basin farms stunted by megadrought
Farmers across the Colorado River Basin are facing an uncertain future in agriculture as the river’s watershed faces ongoing drought, rising irrigation costs, and conservation cutbacks. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Tipping Point: Colorado River strain casts shadow over recreation
Blue Mesa Reservoir, Colorado’s largest body of water, is at its lowest level ever. Plagued by drought and meager snowpack, the reservoir is not even 50% full. In an attempt to shore up Lake Powell and keep power-generating turbines turning, regulators pulled about 36,000 acre-feet from Blue Mesa last year, causing the closure of the…
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Tipping Point: Fire on the Colorado River watershed
Historic drought and low-runoff conditions have impacted the Colorado River Basin for several decades, robbing the area of moisture and priming the land for wildfires. In October of 2020, the East Troublesome spread through Grand County, devastating the drought-stricken terrain with a speed and ferocity no one in Colorado had seen before. As the fire grew,…
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Fentanyl Family: Inside Colorado’s deadly overdose siege
Starting in late 2016, Bruce Holder and his wife began smuggling thousands of fentanyl-laced pills over the border, through a quiet border station in Lukeville, Arizona. In the coming years, the family-turned-drug network would dominate the early fentanyl trade in western Colorado. Fentanyl has killed more than 1,600 Coloradans and tens of thousands of Americans…
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SCENES FROM | 100th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Sights and sounds from the running of the 100th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 26, 2022.
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Colorado Springs woman embodies royal, forgotten queen
Lynna LePage portrays Mary, Queen of Scots of the Highland Rockies. LePage has built a reputation for her sewing prowess. She fashions fantastic, heavily researched outfits for fellow festivalgoers and others. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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2022 U.S. Air Force Academy graduation highlights
Scenes from the U.S. Air Force Academy 2022 graduation ceremony, where nearly 1,000 cadets crossed the stage at Falcon Stadium Wednesday as part of the school’s 64th graduating class. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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SCENES FROM | Colorado College Commencement 2022
Sights and sounds from the commencement ceremony of Colorado College’s class of 2022 in Ed Robson Arena on the CC campus, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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WATCH: Snow day and downed limbs in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region was hit with heavy round of snow Saturday, May 21, 2022, that was too heavy for many tree limbs. Several parts of the region had more than a foot of snow by Saturday morning.