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Mayor Rachel Medina elected to Colorado Municipal League Executive Board

Medina received the most votes in the election’s medium city category

DATE: Jun 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Durango man pleads guilty to escape from La Plata County Jail

Elias Buck suspected of shooting Farmington police officer while on the run in 2022

DATE: Jun 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s inflation rate is falling faster than the U.S. average

A key inflation metric shows that growth in consumer prices in Colorado is cooling faster than the national average, state forecasters told lawmakers this past Thursday. Louis Pino, an econo...

DATE: Jun 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Group tied to Kent Thiry drops $1.1 million into Colorado legislative primaries in final days before election

The money from Let Colorado Vote Action targets 13 races and supports more moderate Democratic and Republican candidates in their races against their more liberal or conservative opponents

DATE: Jun 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More cows are getting avian flu in Colorado. Officials are trying to stop it from spreading to humans

Colorado is seeing a rising number of highly pathogenic avian flu cases in cows. State officials told CPR Friday they’re working with the dairy industry to curb the spread. The first case in...

DATE: Jun 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report details Indigenous treatment in Colorado and recommends how to restore rights

A report released Friday aims to quantify the historic loss of life, land and precious resources for 10 Native nations historically in Colorado, and asks the state to help “mend all that has...

DATE: Jun 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations

Report details the ways the land was legally and illegally taken

DATE: Jun 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Colorado guarantees free access to period products for middle and high school students

Colorado is the 20th state to provide free period products Gov. Jared Polis on June 5 signed House Bill 1164, which will require Colorado schools to provide free period products to female mi...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Education

Lauren Boebert has massive lead in Republican primary, poll shows

40% of those polled said they would vote for the congresswoman on June 25

DATE: Jun 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

One man dead, one missing after a rafting accident in Upper Colorado River

Searchers say neither the 56-year-old man who drowned nor the missing 61-year-old man were wearing PFDs in the second fatal whitewater accident of the 2024 season

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado voters could be blocked from implementing ranked choice voting

Colorado may decide in November whether to move the state’s elections to a ranked choice voting system. However, a recent move by the state legislature could block or delay that change, even...

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 years of college covered for Colorado students under new law

Colorado college students can get the first two years of their education covered by the state under a new law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday. House Bill 24-1340 creates a refundable ...

DATE: Jun 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News