With rents at mobile home parks rising across the mountain west, some residents are taking matters into their own hands to keep prices down. One park in Durango, Colorado, was purchased by residents earlier this year and is being run as a co-op. Now, other communities in Southwest Colorado are considering emulating the model. For KSJD News and Rocky Mountain Community Radio, Lucas Brady Woods has this report.

People who attend some indoor concerts and other large gatherings will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or test negative for the virus, starting Friday. And Colorado Department of Transportation’s Winter Wise campaign is launching “Winter Driving in the Wild.”

Governor Jared Polis has signed an executive order allowing all adults in Colorado to get coronavirus vaccine boosters regardless of age or occupation. And Montezuma County invites residents and voters to participate in a survey regarding a potential ballot measure to create a county sales tax.

A bipartisan infrastructure bill is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk after passage in the house last week, and some of the funding will be designated for the Colorado River basin; Southwest Health System will be holding a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Saturday for children ages 5 to 11.

Telluride's Valley Floor sits just west of Town. The protected open space is home to a gang of elk that use the land as calving and wintering grounds. Over the weekend a hunter killed an elk on property adjacent to the Valley Floor, stirring up outrage from some local residents. KOTO's Julia Caulfield has more.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has deployed a Disaster Medical Assistance Team to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico. And Coloradans should brace themselves for higher winter heating bills in coming months.

Colorado’s recently concluded congressional redistricting process is starting to shake up the upcoming campaigns for the U-S House, including the state's third congressional district; Students in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District will return to in-person classes on Monday after a temporary closure due to widespread COVID-19 infections, but two school bus routes have been suspended for the next week due to extreme staff shortages.

Hospitals in San Juan County New Mexico are at or above capacity because of a COVID-19 surge.

The Intensive Care Unit at Southwest Health System in Cortez is full due to COVID-19. And according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, only 4% of Intensive Care Unit beds are open in the Southwest Colorado Region.

Colorado voters soundly rejected all three of the statewide questions on their ballots during Tuesday's election. And early ballot predictions are in Montezuma and Dolores County.