Fate of Colorado’s universal school lunch program hangs on Props LL, MM results
Three years ago, Colorado voters overwhelmingly said yes to raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for free school meals for all. Every eligible school district signed up for the program and students ate...
View ArticlePolis urges food bank donations, seeks $10 million in state assistance as...
Gov. Jared Polis asked Coloradans to open their wallets Wednesday to help fill the gap that will be created when federal food assistance payments stop Nov. 1, while hoping to boost state aid to food...
View ArticleColoradans still don’t know what they’ll pay for marketplace insurance as...
Less than two weeks from now, Colorado residents looking to buy health insurance through the state’s individual marketplace will be able to choose plans, but they can’t yet see how severe the price...
View Article82-year-old woman dies in Brighton motorcycle crash on I-76
A motorcyclist died Thursday after hitting the center barrier on Interstate 76 near Eagle Boulevard on Thursday afternoon. Related Articles Man on dirt bike dies in Sixth Avenue crash in Aurora with...
View ArticleColoradans to lose SNAP benefits Nov. 1 if shutdown continues, Polis warns
Colorado families will lose federally funded food assistance Nov. 1 if the federal shutdown persists, Gov. Jared Polis warned Friday. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP,...
View ArticleDollar General to pay $400K for overcharging at the register in Colorado
Discount retailer Dollar General will pay a $400,000 fine after state inspectors found the chain repeatedly charged more for items at checkout than their listed shelf price. The Colorado Department of...
View ArticleDemocrats again raise big bucks in hopes of unseating Lauren Boebert from...
Democrats again put big dollars behind candidates looking to unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, new quarterly fundraising reports show, even as she now represents one of Colorado’s reddest districts. The...
View ArticlePhil Weiser keeps cash advantage in Colorado governor’s race — but big PAC...
Attorney General Phil Weiser still holds a significant — albeit still early — cash advantage over U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary race for Colorado governor, newly filed campaign...
View ArticleColorado Propositions LL and MM would bolster state’s beleaguered universal...
Voters will decide the future of Colorado’s universal free school meals program this November through a pair of ballot measures sent to them by the legislature. Propositions LL and MM are aimed at...
View ArticleFormer professor pleads guilty in DUI crash that killed Golden police officer
Golden Police Officer Evan Dunn was killed Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, after a suspected DUI driver crashed into another vehicle on Colorado 58 and trapped him and his partner under it. Dunn, 33, died at...
View Article2 homes lost, dozens damaged by floodwaters in southern Colorado
The Archuleta County Office of Emergency Management issued mandatory evacuation orders for homes along the San Juan and Blanco rivers in southern Colorado on Monday night as the area braces for another...
View Article3 injured in overnight Arvada shootings, police say
Three people were injured Saturday night in two separate Arvada shootings, including one on the edge of Olde Town, according to the police department. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies and...
View ArticleElk herd with ‘agitated’ bull moves on after grazing in Lakewood’s Union...
A herd of elk found some short-term grazing grounds in northwest Lakewood on Monday morning, prompting temporary caution for folks near Union Ridge Park. The Lakewood Police Department posted photos on...
View ArticleAs federal shutdown drags on, workers bear brunt of impact in Colorado and...
For 10 months, microbiologist Stephanie Rogers has watched layoffs and early retirements erode the workforce at her federal lab in Lakewood as it screens samples for foodborne diseases. Now, in the...
View ArticleLawsuit to derail Colorado’s second Buc-ee’s dismissed
A District Court Judge in El Paso County dismissed a lawsuit on Friday that sought to derail the development of a popular Buc-ee’s travel center in the town of Palmer Lake. A group calling itself...
View ArticleWoman sentenced 10 years for 2023 Lakewood ambush killing
One of the seven people charged in connection with a 2023 ambush killing of a pregnant Lakewood woman will serve 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assault with a deadly weapon. Da Janah M....
View ArticleWith ‘no juggernaut’ in the field, Colorado Republicans — 19 and counting —...
A baseball lineup’s worth of conservative candidates for governor showed for a GOP forum this week — and that was only half of the declared field in the still-early 2026 Republican nominating contest....
View ArticleMany of Colorado’s 54,000 federal civilian workers in limbo amid shutdown,...
Tens of thousands of Colorado workers were in limbo Wednesday as the latest partial shutdown of the federal government played out in Washington, D.C., resulting in furloughs across the country. About...
View ArticleColorado secretary of state invalidates House vacancy election, requiring El...
El Paso County Republicans will meet again to fill former state House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese’s seat after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office invalidated a vacancy election that was...
View ArticleAfter Colorado weathered two big budget crunches, lawmakers expect the next...
Heading into the next legislative session, state budget writers face an agonizingly familiar problem: How to cut nearly $1 billion in projected spending. Only now, Democratic leaders warn that federal...
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