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The Colorado Independent is fighting to unseal secret records in a death penalty case
Update: George Brauchler's office has asked for another two-week extension to submit its legal objections to The Independent's motion to unseal documents about prosecutorial...
The gay wedding cake, the baker who wouldn’t make it, and the legal crusade...
Jack Phillips wants to talk.
“But I can’t, not without my lawyers here,” laments the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner whose refusal to make a cake...
Analysis: What a new report on climate science portends for the West
The complexity of climate change means it’s hard to trace simple lines from cause to effect in daily life, much less plan for the...
Colorado redistricting campaign changes course on appointing power and gains a game-changing backer
A group seeking to change the way Colorado draws its political boundaries has made major changes to its plan while gaining an influential backer...
The Gray Box: The inhumanity of solitary confinement
This story, written by Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene, is among the work for which she is being honored this week by the ACLU...
A group says it wants to end partisan redistricting in Colorado. Would its plan...
A coalition that launched a revamped plan it says would take partisanship out of how state and federal political districts are drawn is facing...
Three men still on Colorado’s death row after judge denies capital appeal
This story has been updated.
A judge today denied a five-year appeal by Sir Mario Owens, a man convicted for the 2005 witness killing of...
By the time it became clear the altitude was killing her, it was already...
ASPEN, Colo. – In some ways, Susanna Deforest was typical of those who suffer from Colorado’s thinner air after arriving from a low elevation....
Four Dem governor hopefuls met voters for the first time in one place. Here’s...
BRECKENRIDGE — Against the backdrop of a ski slope as John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” played through a sound system, four top-tier Democratic candidates...
Here’s where Colorado’s GOP candidates for governor stand on health care
In the days leading up to a Republican vote in Congress to repeal and replace— or just repeal— Obamacare, 1,500 miles away in Colorado...