NoCo 5 on launch pad

FORT COLLINS – After a three-month-long hiatus, Cheyenne-based KWGN Channel 5 will resume Northern Colorado television news coverage Sept. 15 with a new cable agreement and an expanded staff at a downtown Fort Collins headquarters.

The ambitious goal is to provide Larimer and Weld counties with exclusively regional content, covering news, sports and weather at 6 and 10 p.m. daily as Northern Colorado 5.

“In my lifetime, I’ve never done anything like this,” KGWN news director Tregg White said. “It’s starting a whole new operation from the ground up. We’ll just keep putting one brick in front of the other, and keep…