Your KBUT Newscast for Tuesday, January 22

An in-bounds avalanche at Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico has now claimed the lives of two skiers. Sheriff John Gallowich says he’s trying to find a way to solidify an agreement with the Mt. Crested Butte Police Department while his office determines whether to assume patrol duties in the North Valley. Comments on the State House Floor are causing a backlash for one state lawmaker who said that black and white Americans were lynched in “near equal numbers.”