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Colorado bill would prevent employers from firing workers for using cannabis

Legislation includes exceptions for people who work in dangerous fields

DATE: Feb 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Effort to crack down on cannabis concentrates spooks some doctors

Physicians worry they may be writing ‘prescriptions,’ which remains illegal under federal law

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Access still an issue in Colorado’s aid-in-dying programs

DENVER (AP) – After 17 years of friendship, Kathy Escobar’s friend asked her for help navigating the medical aid-in-dying program at Denver Health. Bill Ekdahl had COPD, a lung disease, tha...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Split Colorado school board fires superintendent

DENVER – Four new conservative members of a school board south of Denver voted to fire the superintendent at the end of a week of controversy over leadership and the direction of the Douglas...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver-area police identify suspect in fatal church shooting

AURORA – Authorities on Sunday identified a suspect in a church shooting in a Denver suburb in which a woman was killed and two men were injured. Police in Aurora are looking for Jose De Je...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As Colorado warms, snow arrives later and melts earlier; soils, rivers and reservoirs face changes

Last six months of 2021 were hottest in state recorded history

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lost for a month, a Western Slope dog reunited with her owners in unlikely way

For more than a month, countless animal lovers across Colorado’s Western Slope were gripped by the same question: Where is Mia? But you’d never know it from the rescue dog’s calm demeanor no...

DATE: Feb 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s top election official demands answers from third GOP county clerk on alleged election server copying

Douglas County clerk is under investigation by state

DATE: Feb 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers reject attempt to ban mountain lion, bobcat and Canadian lynx hunting

Senate Bill 31 was rejected by the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee during its first hearing at the Colorado Capitol

DATE: Feb 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Dispersed camping is out of control in Chaffee County; officials are seeking solutions

An explosion in visitors and degrading outdoor ethics are wrecking natural areas

DATE: Feb 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

President of Colorado Senate to resign to join Biden administration

Leroy Garcia, a Pueblo Democrat, will work at the Pentagon

DATE: Feb 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lauren Boebert continues fundraising dominance over every House candidate in Colorado

Various controversies have not slowed the congresswoman’s fundraising momentum

DATE: Feb 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News