Colorado

America's winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional.The calendar says December but for much of the country temperatures beckon for sandals. Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacific Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs.

DENVER (AP) -- At least 161 Colorado companies and individuals who owed millions in back taxes still qualified for federal pandemic relief loans, a 9Wants to Know investigation found."Essentially, they're benefiting from taxpayer money without contributing to the system," said Tim Stretton, director of the congressional oversight initiative at the Project On Government Oversight.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Strolling his church's rooftop among 630 solar panels, Bishop Richard Howell Jr. acknowledged climate change isn't the most pressing concern for his predominantly Black congregation -- even though it disproportionately harms people of color and the poor.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire, authorities said.

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado paid more than $630,000 last year to a group of personal and business associates of Gov. Jared Polis that had ostensibly volunteered to help the state manage its way through the COVID-19 pandemic by tracking people's movements, records show.