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At first, Joe Abner would come home from school and find a single house on fire. A vacant house, toppled by a bulldozer and set ablaze by Palm Springs city firemen.Then two houses would be burning. ”Then it got to the point when you saw smoke, you were pretty well freaked out because you didn’t know if it was your house or one of your neighbors’ houses,” Abner said. “They were tearing houses down right in front of your face.”Now 72, Abner was 13 when his family fled Section 14 in Palm Springs, leaving the home his father…

A veteran-owned, California-based company that provides spaces for classified work by government agencies and companies has chosen Colorado for its third and largest location. Nooks, a defense industry startup, has acquired rights to a 60,000-square foot facility near the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, which will provide a secure space for clients. The company also considered sites in Florida and California to expand its operations. In another announcement Tuesday, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and…

A research group from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Engineering has created an environmentally friendly and inexpensive adsorbent material using baker’s yeast and trimetaphosphate that selectively recovers rare earth elements (REEs). Experiments with synthetic seawater and hot spring water showed that the material could adsorb REEs even with a high content of other components.Success in recovering trace rare earth elements in environmental water.An Osaka Metropolitan University research group has…

Glenwood Springs is a destination for those looking to soak in the natural hot springs, and soon, there will be even more ways to do so at its most well-known resort. This week, Glenwood Hot Springs Resort announced plans to build a new swimming area with five pools, including several that feature waterfalls. Construction is now underway at the historic property, originally opened in 1888, and will not affect existing operations. The resort remains open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. When it’s finished in 2024, the new…

Spring’s burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature Credit: Rebecca KonteAdvertisement Every year trees put on a show in the spring by bursting with bright foliage that seems to celebrate the end of winter. What makes these early leaves so vibrant? The color of a leaf is determined by which wavelengths its cells absorb and which they reflect back at us. The chloroplasts inside these cells, which turn sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis, tend to absorb more blue and red…

SPARKS, Nev.—A pioneer in making electric-vehicle batteries in the U.S. has a message for newcomers: It takes time to power up. Japan’s Panasonic Holdings Corp. PCRFY -0.81% started building what would become America’s first large-scale EV-battery plant in 2015, at a site owned by Tesla Inc. TSLA -2.57% in the rolling hills outside of Reno, Nev.  After years of training workers and adapting machinery, Panasonic’s…

My party of two peers around the manicured hedges at the north end of the Plaza Del Sol Shopping Center at exactly 4:30 p.m. It’s nearly dusk on a Sunday in late January. I’m not entirely sure what kind of early crowd I’ll find waiting to score walk-in slots for Bar Cecil, the 75-seat darling of the Palm Springs restaurant scene, but I am determined to dine here tonight.We turn out to be first in the queue. No regrets about showing up extra early, though, because I’ve been through this before at Cecil: By 5 p.m., when…

Club Q plans to reopen this fall, the nightclub’s owners announced Monday on Facebook. The Colorado Springs club, which was devastated by a shooting in November that left five people dead and 18 injured, has been working with a women-owned architecture firm on a permanent tribute to the victims: Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh and Derrick Rump. “Their memories will be carried forward and honored forever, while we work to make Club Q a forever home for our LGBTQIA+ community,” the owners wrote…

The kegs have been mostly empty at Atrevida Beer Co., and the brewery’s merchandise is completely sold out. The last few weeks have been among the brewery’s busiest ever, after the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs focused international attention directly on its owners, Jess and Rich Fierro and their small business. “We’ve had an incredible amount of support,” Jess said. “It’s been overwhelming in the most beautiful way.” The Fierros and daughter Kassy were at Club Q that night attending a drag show when…

A plan long in the works to respond to demands for more mountain-biking trails in the Steamboat Springs area is being criticized as not taking enough steps to protect one of Colorado’s largest elk herds. The Routt National Forest released a draft environmental assessment and proposal for the Mad Rabbit trails project in October and will review the comments and feedback before issuing a  preliminary decision, possibly by April or May. People will then be able to file comments and objections before a final decision is…