The Weld County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, calling upon the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to dismiss its recent decision to increase setbacks for oil and gas facilities and to convene “a meaningful stakeholder process that will consider the need for a close working and coordinating relationship between local governments and the COGCC…”

The resolution cities numerous issues with the COGCC rule-making process including: the lack of stakeholder outreach by the COGCC to the Local Governmental Designees (LGD’s) of three of the highest producing counties in the state, including Weld County; the violation of C.R.S. 24-4-103(4)(a) regarding the rule-making process of the COGCC ruling; and the underestimation of the comparison of the probable costs and benefits of the proposed rule to the probable costs and benefits of inaction as is also required by Colorado Revised Statue (C.R.S.

DENVER – Adams County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a dog after they entered the wrong building while responding to an alarm Monday night, the Animal Law Center claims.

A spokesperson for the Center said the deputies were responding to an alarm on Tennyson Street around 8:30 p.m.

They went into the wrong building. It’s not yet clear what took place before the shooting.

The Center said the dog, named Ziggy, was shot in front of its owner. Ziggy was an 8-year-old blue heeler/border collie mix.

The Animal Law Center is the only dedicated animal law practice in Colorado, said spokesman Kurt Holzberlein.

Reporter Justin Joseph is working on this story and will have more information on FOX31 Denver news at 5 p.m.

Story by: Hendrik Sybrandy

DENVER — One new industry to regulate and less than two months to do it. That’s the challenge facing the task force charged with drafting new rules for recreational marijuana in Colorado.

The November passage of Amendment 64 has now made those regulations necessary.

On Thursday, two of the task force’s five subgroups met to sort through some of the complex issues involved.

Deb Palm-Egle, a medical marijuana patient, was among those who attended.

“I want to know why I should ever get a license again and get on a public register,” Palm-Egle said.

“I want to know what the benefits are going be for a medical marijuana patient compared to somebody off the street, and I want to know what they’re going to do.”