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Southern Bluffs developer pleads guilty to tax fraud

Paid personal expenses with funds meant for real-estate transactions

Coram closing controversial uranium mines

State Rep. Don Coram is taking steps to clean up and shut down four uranium mines he owns, making him among the first uranium mine operators in Colorado to call it quits for now and restore ...

Kinder Morgan hit with $220,000 fines for violations ‘Pattern of rulebreaking’ drew attention

DENVER – Kinder Morgan will pay up to $220,000 in fines for a pattern of environmental violations at carbon dioxide wells it drilled last year between Cortez and Dove Creek. The p...

Ken Salazar to open Denver office for national law firm

DENVER – Ken Salazar, the San Luis Valley native who stepped down as secretary of the Interior in April, is returning to private law practice and opening a Denver office for a national law f...

Governor signs renewable-energy mandate

DENVER – Rural utilities will need to double their renewable energy usage under a law signed Wednesday by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper’s signature on Senate Bill 252 put ...

State dinged on staff evals

DENVER – The state government needs to do a better job tracking its employees’ performance for their annual reviews, an audit released Monday said. The state’s various departments...

Lobato decision disappoints Re-1

Teachers had testified that current system is not ‘thorough, uniform’

Shoults pleads guilty

Former bookkeeper<br/>to pay back $262K

‘The hard part starts now’ Local governments still can ban marijuana retailers

DENVER – The Legislature and governor have had their say on marijuana. Now it’s everyone else’s turn. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed six marijuana-related bills into law Tuesday. T...

'The hardest part starts now' Local governments still can ban marijuana retailers

DENVER - The Legislature and governor have had their say on marijuana. Now it's everyone else's turn. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed six marijuana-related bills into law Tuesday. T...

Report: Medical use exposes kids to pot

DENVER – More Colorado kids have ended up in the hospital after accidentally consuming marijuana since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, according to a study published Mo...

Electric cooperatives wage battle with Tri-State

But PUC may not have jurisdiction