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CO Senate 2018

Backers of oil and gas drilling setbacks in Colorado lost at the ballot box,...

The defeat of Proposition 112, Colorado’s oil and gas drilling setback measure, followed a national trend. Voters in Arizona and Washington, like those in...

Democrats take the Colorado Senate Democrats swept a handful of state Senate races, tipping...

The state Senate has flipped blue. Five Democratic women who ran in key state Senate battlegrounds claimed a monumental victory Tuesday night, ousting two GOP...

Is the debate about Amendment V a debate about millennials themselves?

Coloradans are set to vote on Amendment V, which proposes that Colorado reduce the minimum age for running for the state Senate and House...

Democrats hunker down in suburban swing districts, hoping to flip the Colorado Senate Races...

With one week before Election Day, candidates running for Colorado’s competitive state Senate seats have mostly emptied their war chests in efforts to persuade...

The race for this suburban state Senate seat presents challenges for how to address...

State Rep. Brittany Pettersen sat before an 18-member state legislative committee to present a package of bills she helped write aimed at creating more...

It’s a race to win over independents in this El Paso County Senate district...

COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s a Wednesday morning and the line outside the El Paso County Judicial Building wraps around the block. The entrance is...

In the battle for this suburban Senate seat, growth takes center stage A progressive...

WHEAT RIDGE — Al Graham sat outside a church watching cars whiz past. Across the street, construction workers paced back and forth across scaffolding,...

Outside group backing Democratic state Senate candidates spends millions week before ballots drop Democratic...

An outside group spent millions supporting Democratic candidates in battleground state Senate seats a week before ballots went out.  Coloradans for Fairness, an independent expenditure...

Two candidates for this rural Senate seat push different solutions to looming water shortages...

CARBONDALE - At the head of the Crystal River Valley, automated sprinklers trundle across fields that hug Highway 133, scattering precious water over green...
Colorado's Capitol, where Democrats currently control both chambers. (Photo by John Herrick)

Dems vying for statehouse seats outraise Republicans, but outside groups poised to spend big...

In the battle to flip the state Senate from red to blue, Democratic candidates are outraising their Republican rivals by nearly three to one,...