Month: December 2011

Thomas Howie, who pled guilty to arson Nov. 30 in connection with the Crystal Fire in April, is due to be sentenced Feb. 10, 2012. Howie’s plea came on the second day of his scheduled […]

U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Yuma, will no longer represent Larimer County in Congress after next year, after the Colorado Supreme Court decided to uphold the final redistricting map submitted by the state […]

Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association customers will see an average rate increase of 3.2 percent effective Jan. 1. The co-op’s board of directors approved the rate increase for its 35,000 members at a public meeting […]

Colorado Gives Day, 24 hours of online philanthropy in support of the state’s nonprofit organizations, begins at midnight Tuesday, Dec. 6, at GivingFirst.org. Donors can search the site for their favorite nonprofit and donate as […]

If you or your neighbor have a great light display, add it to our interactive North Forty News Christmas lights locator map. The map will feature some of the more popular destinations including Gardens at […]

Emergency slope repairs that have been under way since August on Colorado Highway 14 on the west side of Cameron Pass near the town of Gould will continue until early 2012. The Colorado Department of […]

For four months, students in Colorado State University’s fall floriculture practicum have nursed hundreds of poinsettias from tiny rooted cuttings into vivid holiday plants. And after a semester of watchful greenhouse gardening, the horticulture students […]