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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Around 800 people march down College Avenue for the annual Martin Luther King Jr March. (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Susan Holmes files civil action against CSU over transparency dispute

Julia Trowbridge March 25, 2019
Susan Holmes, the mother of Jeremy Holmes who was shot by Colorado State University Police in July 2017, is has filed a civil action against CSU.
Fort Collins (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Fort Collins City Council candidates endorse, reject anti-corruption act

Julia Trowbridge March 25, 2019
Represent Fort Collins, a chapter of a national organization looking to end corruption in politics, asked each City Council candidate to endorse the American Anti-Corruption Act.
Scooters from companies like Lime and Bird line the streets of downtown Austin, Texas, one of the cities that has a large amount of electric scooters. The City of Fort Collins and Colorado State University are working on regulations to prevent issues that other cities are having with these scooters before welcoming them into the city. (Photo courtesy of Kaitlyn Trowbridge)

Council approves e-bikes, e-scooters for expanded use

Samantha Ye March 25, 2019

Get multimodal, Fort Collins. The City will be expanding their transportation options this summer as Council finalized their approval of electric scooters with a dismount amendment and will allow e-bikes...

Fort Collins (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Two major money issues on Fort Collins election ballot

Samantha Ye March 24, 2019

Fort Collins residents can expect to vote on two money-related ballot issues this year. The first City-initiated ballot issue would extend and make partially permanent the Keep Fort Collins Great sales...

Fort Collins students strike against climate change

Fort Collins students strike against climate change

Meagan Stackpool March 16, 2019

Local Fort Collins high school students organized a strike protesting climate change in conjunction with thousands of similar demonstrations held in 123 countries, in 2,052 places and across all seven...

Snow-covered bike rack outside Allison Hall on Thursday morning, Dec. 6. (Anna von Pechmann | Collegian)

City Council to consider e-bike program next meeting

Julia Trowbridge March 16, 2019
Fort Collins City Council is making alternative transportation options electric with preparing for e-scooters and now, e-bikes, according to a press release.
Local organizers notice positive impact of volunteering community, students

Local organizers notice positive impact of volunteering community, students

Charlotte Lang March 11, 2019

Volunteering isn’t just good for the community — it’s good for the volunteers. Organizations such as United Way of Larimer County and Student Leadership, Involvement and Community Engagement offer...

The second panel of candidates at the candidate forum, who are running for the councilmember position for districts one and two, answer questions given by the moderator. (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Environment, diversity, U+2 discussed at City Council candidate forum

Julia Trowbridge March 10, 2019
On March 6, 13 candidates running for mayor and councilmember positions discussed U+2, the environment, diversity, the growth of Fort Collins and ethics.
The Fort Collins city council met on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. During the meeting they discussed a measure to make the meetings move faster by requiring citizens to provide any materials that they wish to present atleast 2 hours early. (Josh Schroeder | Collegian)

New regulations planned for wood burning in residential areas

Samantha Ye March 6, 2019

Burning wood outside is no longer a criminal act, but that’s just going to make it easier to crack down on. City Council unanimously moved to adopt two new ordinances which will make it easier to enforce...

Fort Collins City Council (Davis Bonner | Collegian)

Lawsuit emerges against Fort Collins after accusations of discrimination

Delaney Allen March 6, 2019

Following accusations of gender and age discrimination, the City of Fort Collins, former Interim Police Chief Terrence Jones and former Deputy Chief Jerry Schiager are facing lawsuits in U.S. District...

CSU alumni of zoology Jazmine Ruybal feeds a Golden Eagle. The eagle is one of the permeant residents at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program and was admitted into their care in 1994. (Matt Tackett | Collegian)

Local raptor program admits record amount of birds

Charlotte Lang March 4, 2019

A local Fort Collins program dedicated to protecting birds of prey admitted a record number of raptors last year. The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program— a community-based team dedicated to rescuing and...

Fort Collins government demonstrates the beginning of a new fiber network that is beginning construction. With the fiber network internet speeds can reach up to a gigabyte per second. (Nathan Tran | Collegian)

Residents, City celebrate starting build-out of Connexion

Samantha Ye March 1, 2019

While there wasn’t literal broken ground at the Connexion’s groundbreaking event, residents were able to gain further insight into the roll-out and future of Fort Collins’ City broadband. Construction...

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