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One month after a federal board voted to change the name Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, four members of Colorado’s congressional delegation are introducing legislation to rename the wilderness area that surrounds the towering peak.

U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet, and U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Brittany Pettersen, all Democrats, introduced a bill in Congress on Tuesday to change the name of the 75,000-acre Mount Evans Wilderness to Mount Blue Sky Wilderness.

Rep. Joe Neguse has announced that $1.4 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been awarded to Eagle County.

The funds will go toward reducing energy burdens for underserved households in the state’s rural mountain communities. The funding is part of a larger $30 million nationwide investment made possible by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of State and Community Energy — Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. 

• Federal wildland firefighters could see sizable pay cuts if Congress doesn't step in soon.
• Many fear that there could be an exodus of firefighters at a time when the US can least afford it.
• In recent years, extreme weather events have necessitated robust responses to wildfires. 

Next month, thousands of federal firefighters may face a dreaded scenario that they've long sought to avoid: hefty pay cuts.

Local middle and high school students spent Saturday bringing their ideas for new technology to life at the fourth annual App-a-Thon.

Held at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Saturday’s App-a-Thon was hosted by the office of Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo. Neguse was unable to attend the event, but representatives from his office joined roughly 30 students as they networked with coders and workshopped ideas ahead of the Congressional App Challenge.

Thousands of federal firefighters could face substantial pay cuts in the coming weeks, potentially hampering the country’s ability to respond to wildfires as they have grown more severe.

Community members and elected officials gathered on Thursday to celebrate safety improvements coming to Diagonal Highway while reflecting on the tragedies that have occurred on the highway over the years.

One of the most recent deaths on Colo. 119 between Boulder and Longmont was Magnus White, a Boulder resident and athlete with USA Cycling. In July, the 17-year-old was struck by a driver while biking southbound on the highway.

Over 2,000 people gathered at Temple Emanuel in Denver on Monday night to mourn the deaths of Israeli civilians over the weekend during a deadly attack by a militant group.

“These last three days have been incredibly difficult for all of us that have a love for Israel and a love for humanity. The barbaric, horrible attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has simply been devastating for us,” Scott Levin, the Mountain States regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, told the crowd.

Sheryl Buchman and Erica Solove, whose homes were destroyed in the Marshall Fire, both discovered they were underinsured as they started to rebuild in Superior’s Sagamore neighborhood.

But neither ended up applying for low-interest disaster loans from the Small Business Administration to help make up the difference, saying the process was too cumbersome at a time they were already overwhelmed.

“We just didn’t have it in us to fight another battle,” Solove said.