A controversial bill that would have banned the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats in Colorado stalled in a legislative committee Thursday.

Advocates for Wyoming's Latino communities welcomed the latest voter redistricting maps advanced last week.

Conservation groups say it was a close call last week when a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contractor began clearing a site near Moab which contained dinosaur tracks believed to be 112 million years old.

The blood in our bodies is a complex fluid.

Birthdays

February 7

• Chelsea Davis
• Monica Uhland
• Jacob Swartz
• Jaselynn Maggart

February 8

• Jaxon Eikenberg
• Rustin Jensen
• Jodi Stolzenberger
• Paisley Marie Weeks
• Lois Weisdorfer
• Linda Hopkins

February 9

• Nichole Lyon
• Avlon Gilmore

February 10

• Marlynn Eikenberg
• Omar Ayala
• Trenton Mitchek
• Charlie Princ

The U.S. economy surprised analysts by adding 467,000 jobs in January, overcoming omicron concerns and continuing a long streak of gains, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Feb. 4, 2022.

A third county clerk and recorder in Colorado is under investigation for an alleged election security protocol breach, the secretary of state’s office said Thursday. 

Colorado’s economic momentum is "expected to continue" this year despite ongoing concerns about the omicron variant and inflation woes.

Sixteen states again are challenging a federal COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers who work at facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Photo of the week from the February 4, 2022, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - snow along a fence line - Chris Sorensen.