5 ways the Colorado Legislature just affected your wallet – in a good way

Your property taxes won’t rise as much as they were supposed to and Coloradans will temporarily avoid a $2 increase in the cost to get or renew a driver’s license

Fines for Colorado schools with Native mascots begin in June. But who will enforce them?

About a dozen schools have been warned by commission about appropriating imagery

Colorado will have an office for cases of murdered, missing Indigenous people

Gov. Jared Polis said he will sign Senate Bill 150 into law after weeks of negotiations with lawmakers, tribal representatives

Colorado, Nebraska jostle over water rights amid drought

OVID – Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day’s task: Carefully sowing hundred...

Crackdown on intoxicating hemp products could be coming to Colorado

State may begin regulating items that contain delta-8

Colorado school children raised trout. The state had to kill a lot of the ‘poor buggers’ for testing

An innovative solution is helping cut down the number of fish involved in fatal testing process

Feds dismiss campaign finance complaint against Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert

It’s increasingly common for the commission to deadlock on enforcement cases

Colorado Springs enacts fire ban after series of fires

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado Springs is enacting a fire ban after a series of fires have spread quickly in hot and dry conditions, including a fatal one caused by smoking. Under the ban takin...

Whistleblowers say they falsified patient records at Western Slope mental health center

State regulators have overlooked what former Mind Springs workers describe as a long pattern of fraud

4 Air Force cadets may not graduate because of vaccine refusal

WASHINGTON – Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required...

Sweeping fentanyl bill caps Colorado lawmakers’ 2022 session

DENVER – Colorado’s Democratic-led Legislature capped its 2022 session Wednesday by passing a bill designed to confront the fentanyl crisis by giving prosecutors more room to pursue felony c...

100 bills debated at the Colorado Legislature this year that you should know about

Roughly 650 pieces of legislation were introduced this year at the Capitol