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Republican Senate leader to back hospital provider fee change

Updated to add comment from Michael Fields of Americans for Prosperity. While conservative lawmakers are squabbling about how to finance an immediate need for $3.5...

GOP Senate prez under fire for state transportation tax plan

Reaction from conservative lawmakers and their allies to a transportation bill introduced Wednesday afternoon has been swift and from some, brutal. The plan would seek voter approval to...

Statehouse designates “Protecting Rural Hospitals Day” as small towns brace for...

Colorado lawmakers and hospital executives on Wednesday made it clear that small town healthcare faces the fight of its life in the coming year. A resolution...

Oil and gas tampering bill moves on to state House

The state Senate this morning gave its final okay to a bill that would make tampering with oil and gas equipment a felony punishable...

Colorado Senate to consider harsher penalties for oil and gas tampering

As tensions between homeowners and Colorado's oil and gas industry heat up, a state senator wants to enable the state to slap up to...

State water plan celebrates one year anniversary

In the year since Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Water Conservation Board released a much-ballyhooed plan to grapple with a looming water shortage,...

State water plan cost at least $6 million

Colorado taxpayers have spent at least $6 million on the state’s water plan, an eight-month-old document that has led to little, if any, real...

Fall ballot measures to tackle beer, the minimum wage, fracking and…ballot...

Voters could decide as many as a dozen ballot measures this fall, ranging from whether to allow grocery stores to sell beer and wine,...

Election study group hears mostly “no” on presidential primary

Photo: Voters participate in a caucus in Denver on March 1.  If the first in a series of forums on Colorado’s caucus and primary system...

Beyond rain barrels: What this legislative session did — and didn’t...

Authorizing the use of rain barrels wasn’t the only major water decision to come out of the 2016 legislative session, but no matter your...