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So you want to caucus? Here’s how to do it when parties gather next week

Precinct-level events start March 1; times and locations vary by county

DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Prosecutor: Fentanyl likely killed 5 in Colorado apartment

DENVER – Preliminary evidence suggests that five people found dead in an apartment in suburban Denver overdosed on fentanyl while taking what they believed to be cocaine, the district attorn...

DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Small jet goes off runway in Aspen, closing airport

ASPEN – A departing small jet went off the end of the runway at Aspen’s airport on Monday, leading to the closure of the Colorado ski resort community’s airport on a busy travel day. No one ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Mushroom rabbi grows psilocybin for Denver congregation

DENVER (AP) – On a picturesque autumn evening in early November, the sunset belied a briskness to the Denver breeze. But inside a nondescript brick building downtown, anticipation was heatin...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Coloradans worried about water, wildfires and cost of living, new poll shows

Telephone and online interview polled 3,440 residents of eight Mountain West states

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado ends crisis care protocol for hospital staffing

DENVER – Citing declining COVID-19 hospitalizations as the omicron coronavirus variant wanes, Colorado on Thursday deactivated its crisis standards of care that enabled hospitals and emergen...

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Most Colorado school districts ditch mask mandates

Decisions come amid steep decline in omicron wave

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Charges for Dane in Colorado wildfire will likely be dropped

DENVER (AP) — Criminal charges will probably be dropped against a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a large 2018 Colorado wildfire, who can no longer be forcibly medicated, a prosecutor said Monday.

DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Patagonia, REI others threaten to boycott Outdoor Retailer show

Companies would not participate if event moves to Utah

DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah senator blocks internment camp designation, draws ire

DENVER – On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of World War II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for...

DATE: Feb 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New charges for Colorado clerk targeted in voting probe

GRAND JUNCTION – A Colorado county elections clerk under investigation by federal and state authorities in a security breach of voting machines posted bond on Thursday on two misdemeanor cha...

DATE: Feb 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s COVID-19 positivity, hospitalization rates drop, state officials say

861 people were hospitalized as of Wednesday, a decrease from more than 1,800 several weeks ago