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SMYRNA, Tenn., March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Contour Airlines is pleased to announce an expansion of its flight schedule at Canyonlands Regional Airport in Moab, UT for April and May. As a result of this expansion, both residents and visitors will benefit from 7 weekly flights to Phoenix and 12 weekly flights to Denver. With up to 19 total weekly flights between Moab, Denver, and Phoenix, Contour Airlines is making it even easier for travelers to visit Moab during the busy spring travel season.

"We're excited to expand our service in Moab and offer additional flights during the busy spring travel season," said Ben Munson, President of Contour Airlines. "Moab continues to be a popular destination for travelers, and these additional flights will make it even easier for visitors from around the world to explore the region's world-class outdoor recreation, including nearby Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park."

Contour Airlines will operate the additional flights using its 30-seat regional jet, offering passengers a comfortable and reliable travel experience. Each flight features extra legroom, complimentary snacks and beverages, one free checked bag, and one free carry-on bag with every fare, delivering a premium regional travel experience.

Flights are available for booking now at www.contourairlines.com. For customer inquiries or travel assistance, please contact Contour Airlines at (888) 332-6686.

About Contour:Contour Airlines offers a premium airline product that includes a complimentary first checked bag and snack and beverage service on all domestic flights. Contour operates a growing fleet of regional jets featuring leather seating with expanded legroom in every row. Tickets are available for purchase on Contour's website at contourairlines.com, by calling the Contour call center at (888) 332-6686, and through local and online travel agencies. Travelers can also book seamless connections with Contour's interline partners; Alaska, American, JetBlue, and United Airlines.

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DENVER, CO (March 9, 2026) – Friday morning, a startling plane crash at Denver International Airport injured one person.

The incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. at Denver International Airport.

According to reports, a de-icing truck collided with a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 that was set to depart from Denver to Nashville.

Moreover, responders transported an employee of the de-icing contractor to a hospital with unknown injuries.

At this time, the events leading to the crash remained unclear. When additional information becomes available, the public will be notified.

Due to limited information, the authorities continued investigating the crash.

We at Sweet Lawyers would like to express our condolences to the family and friends of the deceased victims. Also, our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.

In the case of a devastating plane crash, the victim’s family must become aware of their rights under the law. This means that there may be a right to file a lawsuit against the person, person, or company responsible for losing their loved one.

Having legal representation after such a traumatic event will give your family the space to heal. At the same time, ensure that justice is brought to your loved one.

“Our firm works tirelessly to ensure that the people we work for are granted the highest restitution possible. Although nothing can bring back those dearly departed, we strive to secure the future of our clients, protecting them from further losses,” explains Mark Sweet of Sweet Lawyers.

We understand that the aftermath of losing a loved one can be extremely confusing and traumatizing. However, our office has devoted many hours to providing the best representation to our clients, making sure that bereaved families will get what they rightfully deserve. Therefore, if you have lost a loved one in an accident caused by the negligence of another party, do not hesitate to contact the Sweet Lawyers today. Furthermore, we offer free and confidential consultations. Please call us at (800) 674 7852.

Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin may reduce the amount of water delivered during the spring runoff to just a third of normal, according to federal forecasters.

Modeling released late last week showed the river system on track to deliver a scant 2.3 million acre-feet to Lake Powell, one of the river system’s largest reservoirs. That’s 36% of the median of 6.4 million acre-feet recorded between 1991 and 2020. If the forecast comes true, it would be the fifth-lowest inflow to Lake Powell since the reservoir’s establishment in 1963, according to the National Weather Service’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center.

“It’s not a pretty picture here,” Cody Moser, a hydrologist with the center, said of the basin’s snowpack during a briefing on the forecast Friday.

Lake Powell and its counterpart, Lake Mead, make up the vast majority of water storage on the Colorado River, which provides drinking water to 40 million people, sustains millions of acres of agriculture and provides critical wildlife habitat.

Lower-than-expected water supplies can lead to fallowed farm fields, drought restrictions in cities and difficult decisions for water managers tasked with divvying up the meager supplies. All of western Colorado relies on water from the river and its tributaries. Front Range communities, too, need the river. Half the supplies used by Denver Water’s 1.5 million customers comes from the Colorado River.

Lake Powell, located primarily in southern Utah, collects water from the states upstream of it — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico — and releases water to three states below — Arizona, Nevada and California.

Negotiators from the seven Colorado River basin states for more than two years have tried to agree on a plan to split up the river’s water, but so far they have failed. The river’s current operation guidelines expire at the end of the calendar year.

Already, federal officials predict water levels could fall so low at Lake Powell by August that water will no longer flow through the intake tubes for Glen Canyon Dam’s hydroelectric turbines. Lake Powell at the beginning of March was 24% full, while Mead — which is in Nevada and Arizona — was 34% full.

Much of the Colorado River’s water begins as snow in Colorado’s mountains, which have been plagued by record-low snowfall this winter.

The Colorado River headwaters’ snowpack sat at 66% of the median for this time of year on Monday — the lowest recorded level since measurements began in 1986.

“The Colorado headwaters are the worst this water year; they’re well below normal,” Moser said, noting that many winter storms missed the area.

Other regions in the basin have fared better. Basinwide, precipitation amounts are similar to those recorded last season.

Some areas, like the Green River basin above Flaming Gorge Reservoir — which straddles the Wyoming-Utah border — have received above-average precipitation.

But record heat erased any good news about precipitation, Moser said. Much of the Colorado River basin experienced the warmest winter on record, he said.

Higher temperatures convert would-be snowstorms into rainstorms. When it rains instead of snowing, more of the water is absorbed by the soil, evaporates or is sucked up by plants — reducing the amount of water available for human use.

The heat also has dried out soils across the basin, which means that the ground will absorb more water than normal, decreasing the amount expected to flow downstream.

Some snow has already begun to melt — even at elevations as high as 10,000 feet, Moser said.

River gauges are already recording daytime melting, Moser said, including on tributaries to the Yampa River in Colorado and on the rivers and streams above Blue Mesa Reservoir outside Gunnison. Typically, the snow in those mountains does not begin to melt until early April.

Even in the best-case scenario, it is too late for Colorado River supplies to reach normal. At best, if spring weather is significantly wetter and cooler than expected, inflow to Lake Powell could reach two-thirds of normal.

If the river delivers the projected 2.3 million acre-feet of water, it would be slightly more than the panic-inducing inflows of 2012. The lowest inflow on record occurred in 2002, when less than 1 million acre-feet made its way to the reservoir.

There’s not much hope in the near future for drought-reversing weather. Temperatures are expected to remain warmer than normal and precipitation lower than normal across the entire basin through at least March 19, Moser said.

“Starting tomorrow, it’s going to be mostly dry,” he said on Friday.

Colorado may have improperly paid more than $75 million to autism service providers and could be on the hook to return more than half that sum to the federal government, a new report found.

The Office of the Inspector General estimated the state’s Medicaid program overpaid $77.8 million for applied behavior analysis services in 2022 and 2023. ABA involves breaking tasks down into steps, so children with severe autism or developmental disabilities can learn how to perform personal care or communicate with others.

The report recommended Colorado refund about $42.6 million to the federal government. The state and the federal government split the cost of caring for children covered by Medicaid roughly in half.

The inspectors took a sample of 96 enrollees with care worth about $611,000 and determined about 31% was definitely improper, mostly due to lack of documentation, and 69% was “potentially” improper. They determined $862 worth of billing was clearly correct.

Extrapolating those numbers across the entire population receiving ABA services yielded estimates of $77.8 million in improper payments and $207.4 million that could be improper.

Colorado’s Medicaid spending on ABA services more than doubled from $60.1 million in 2019 to $163.5 million in 2023, according to the report. Other states also had large increases that raised concerns about improper billing, according to the report.

The inspectors determined Colorado hadn’t regularly reviewed payments or educated providers about how they should bill.

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing said it is working with the federal government, ABA providers and other stakeholders to prevent fraud and bend the curve in increasing costs for autism therapy. In the past year, it launched a process for reviewing payments before or after they go to providers, with the possibility of recouping improper ones.

“Colorado and the nation are battling unacceptable cost increases due to outrageous behaviors and practices by a subset of disruptive and revenue-maximizing ABA providers,” the department said in a statement.

The department said it disputed the inspectors’ method for calculating what the state should pay back and planned to appeal, however.

Rebecca Urbano Powell, president of the Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis, said the OIG report shows failure by the state government to clarify how providers should document their services, not fraud by providers. The association raised concerns about the state’s processes, but it never acted on them, she said.

“This report should be a wake-up call to fix broken systems, not an excuse to take care away from children who depend on these therapies every day,” she said in a news release. “Providers have asked for years for better oversight and clearer standards, and instead, families are now facing the risk of more cuts and more red tape. Children with autism deserve stability, access, and care, not punishment for the state’s failures.”

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A shift in weather is on the way to Colorado, with more snow expected in upcoming days – first in the mountains and then along the Front Range metro area.

Per reporting from the National Weather Service, in the most likely scenario (80% chance), peaks along the Continental Divide north of I-70 should get about eight to 12 inches of snow from Tuesday evening through Friday at 5 p.m. The Park Range should also get similar totals in this scenario. Some flurries may be present throughout the rest of the state, though totals should be limited to a couple inches or less in most areas.

See what this looks like along with a couple exceptions on the map below, which has an 80% chance of hitting:

The National Weather Service’s ‘high-end’ snowfall scenario shows a snowfall scenario that could bring a bigger impact, though most snow is still limited to the northern half of the state and higher peaks in this region. In this 10 percent-chance scenario, upper-end totals hit about 12 to 18 inches along the Continental Divide north of I-70 and in the Park Range. Peaks near Aspen, the Flat Tops, and those in Summit County also get a bit more snow – about six to 12 inches. This scenario could also mean about eight to 12 inches of snow on Pikes Peak.

See this ‘high-end’ snowfall scenario (10% chance) depicted on the map below:

As of March 3, Colorado’s snowpack is at about 61 percent of the norm for the date – a record low. It’s also worth noting that Colorado’s snow-water equivalent has dropped to 7.9 inches from 8.0 inches, showing a decline in snowpack – not something many would expect at this point in March. The previous record-low for the date was 8.2 inches while the norm is 13 inches.

It is worth noting, however, that much bigger snow could come after the date range depicted on the maps above as March gets underway. Some forecasting is calling for double-digit totals in Denver, along with other parts of the state throughout the second week of the month. We’ll have to wait and see.

Find additional forecasting information on the National Weather Service website.