Governmental Conduct Act updates approved in first committee

Measure seeks to update the civil penalty for violating the GCA

Higher education leaders show up to support Yazzie-Martinez bill

Bill seeking $27M appropriation to boost language instruction clears first committee

Decades of inaction left a water system in southwestern Colorado in shambles. Will the state step in to help?

Farmers and ranchers on the Southern Ute Reservation and in La Plata County are left with a deteriorating water system with leaky pipes and eroding ditches

Lawmakers want attorney general to create new task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people

Task force members decried the governor’s disbanding of their group last year

Paid family and medical leave bill moves ahead in the Roundhouse

Bill passed the committee by a 6 to 3 vote along party lines

Counties, Southern Utes leverage over $70 million in grant funds for broadband

More than 300 miles of fiber-optic installation slated for next few years

Pueblo Community College receives fire mitigation grant

The college will create a program surrounding fire mitigation with the funds

Former director of Southwest Colorado nonprofit suspected of embezzlement

Ashley Hein allegedly spent more than $21,000 on personal items

House panel advances two bills related to guns

One bill would restrict the use of firearms and the other has restrictions on firearm sales

Cloud seeding pilot program passes first committee

Process has been shown to increase rainfall, but some are concerned about the chemicals being released into the atmosphere

Colorado Parks and Wildlife carries out deer collaring with herd southwest of Durango

Data collection contributes to understanding of migration patterns, mitigating human-wildlife impacts

Lawmakers begin crafting education budget priorities with career technical instruction in mind

Literacy, staff shortages, attendance, pay increases and improving outcomes for students also prioritized