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New data provides a glimpse into Colorado’s county jails Several counties,...

On Jan. 1, there were at least 9,802 people locked up in Colorado’s 57 jails. At least 409 of them were held in solitary...

Denver metro area schools closed as authorities search for a woman...

Update: Law enforcement says it found Sol Pais dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Clear Creek County near Mount Evans. More than two...

A Democratic wave surged deep into Colorado’s key counties on Election...

For years, political analysts have had their eyes on a handful of counties in Colorado — Jefferson, Arapahoe, Adams and Larimer — as bellwethers,...

Opposition group still spreading lies about China trip Zenzinger never took

Colorado state Senate candidate Rachel Zenzinger is once again in the peculiar position of having to insist that she has never been to China....

Colorado’s High Court won’t hear teachers’ union appeal in sick-leave open...

  The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a state appeals court decision holding that sick-leave records are not part of a public...

Last year’s JeffCo school board battle is the subject of a...

Who would spend $1 million in a school board race? Residents of Jefferson County, particularly those with school-aged children, are almost certainly familiar with how...

Jeffco teachers have a new long-term contract, but unrest remains

The Jefferson County school board on Thursday approved a long-term deal with the school district’s teachers union, which includes $10.4 million in pay increases for the next academic year.

How charter schools are dodging Colorado laws

Educators say people without college degrees, including high schoolers, are teaching in Pre-K through fifth grade classes at the Community Leadership Academy, a publicly...

Conservatives burned money on JeffCo races. Unions spent big and won

  The Independence Institute, Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2015 school board races and ended...

Jeffco Board of Education’s housecleaning begins

Housecleaning has begun for the newly elected Jefferson County Board of Education. Brad Miller, the attorney hired by the conservative majority that was ousted in...