Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are monitoring and documenting the impacts to the fishery on the Cache la Poudre River following Tuesday’s flash flood.

Despite occasional rain showers in areas of western Colorado over the spring and summer, persistent drought conditions have parched soil over much of the western part of the state, stressing irrigated lawns and larger landscape trees.

With the highly infectious delta coronavirus variant spreading at an alarming rate, the World Health Organization in late June 2021 urged people to again wear masks indoors – even those who are fully vaccinated.

As President Joe Biden faces concerns over the economy and the crisis at the southern border, his polling numbers have dipped to the lowest point since he took office.

The United States Department of Agriculture will begin gathering crops information from producers in August.

United States cattle inventory for June 2021 from the USDA.

Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would make news in Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North America, and lethal floods of biblical proportions in Germany and China.

When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many U.S. teens were more worried about the disruption to their education than the possibility of getting sick. Now, teens most frequently worry about not being able to motivate themselves to do, or focus on, schoolwork.

Colorado and United States cattle on feed report for June 2021 from the USDA.