Crews continue to clean up Evans Elementary School in Colorado Springs Thursday and Friday, after a student set a fire in a bathroom that evacuated the school and shut it down for several days. Now crews are working around the clock to get the school ready for students' return on... more »
DENVER (AP) - The president of Cotter Corp. says the company will comply with state orders to remove contaminated water from a former uranium mine west of Denver.
Cotter president Amory Quinn tells the Denver Post the company will follow a court order to pump out and treat uranium-tainted... more »
GROTON, Conn. (AP) - Eight sailors on the USS Missouri attack submarine are back from a week of voluntary leave they took to help clean up tornado damage in the state of Missouri.
The sailors arrived back at U.S. Submarine Base in Groton Wednesday after assisting the AmeriCorps, the... more »
ATLANTA (AP) - Environmental groups are asking a federal appeals court to throw out a U.S. government decision to approve a Shell oil exploration plan that involves five proposed wells under more than 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation... more »
Volunteers are needed to help clean-up "Big Hill" on Pueblo's northside on Saturday May 22. Rakes, gloves and other tools will be provided--so just show up and lend a hand. The clean-up will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you want to help, show up at Montezuma and... more »
It's that time of year for spring cleaning and Saturday May 1st there's a big clean-up scheduled in one of Pueblo's oldest neighborhoods. It's the 7th annual Bessemer Neighborhood clean-up. Residents can drop off old appliances, tires, yard waste and other trash to the corner of Abriendo Ave. and Canal... more »
The two City-operated cemeteries, Evergreen and Fairview, will do an annual clean-up from March 1 to March 15. People are now encouraged to remove any items from gravesites and headstones they wish to save. Christmas wreaths, for example, will be removed and thrown away, as well as tarnished or damaged... more »