NEWS

Headlines:

• Legislature takes up issue of gun control
• State debates accepting federal health insurance money, job creation
• BLM Grand Junction office welcomes comment on RMP
• 670 hospitalized cases of the flu so far in Colorado; vaccination urged
• Rusty water in Paonia not dangerous
• Elk Creek Mine hopes to stabilize and re-open within a week

An avalanche killed a Summit County man outside the town of Marble this past weekend. It's the second avalanche related death in as many weeks this winter. From Aspen Public Radio, Luke Runyon reports:

A hearing officer is making no recommendation about whether to approve or deny a license for the Pinyon Ridge uranium mill in western Montrose County. Instead, he's leaving the decision to state regulators. Retired judge Richard Dana submitted his six-page ruling to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment yesterday. From KOTO in Telluride, Stephen Barrett reports.

Headlines:

• Work halted at Oxbow's Elk Creek Mine due to high levels of Carbon Monoxide
• No ruling yet on Pinon Ridge Uranium Mill in Montrose County
• Avalanche Fatality in high country near Marble
• Commissioners set hunting regulations for 2013 season
• Arvada Pastor court ordered to change name of program

Nearly a third of this year’s state lawmakers are newly elected, and they’ll be expected to debate a host of complex issues from Medicaid to marijuana, gun laws to the death penalty. As part of our capitol conversation series statehouse reporter Bente Birkeland takes a look at the first week of the session, and gets reporter’s thoughts on the Governor’s state of the state address.