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Effort to repeal Colorado’s death penalty reaches new milestone Lawmakers have...

Update: This story was originally published on Jan. 30. On Friday, Jan. 31, the Senate gave final approval to the bill by a vote...

Colorado was set to repeal the death penalty this year. What...

A few weeks ago, in preparation for what she knew would be an emotional debate on the state Senate floor over whether to repeal...

The plan to repeal the death penalty in Colorado is coming...

Editor's note: The death penalty stands in Colorado. Tuesday, Democrats in the Colorado Senate abandoned efforts to pass a bill abolishing capital punishment, citing...

Democrats take the Colorado Senate Democrats swept a handful of state...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Businesses that short their workers no longer protected by “trade secrets”...

Finding out which businesses cheat workers out of their fairly-earned wages - whether making them work off the clock, not paying overtime or not...

Senate committee kills measure to open records on wage-law violations

With no discussion, a Senate committee late last week killed legislation that would have allowed the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to disclose whether a company has cheated its workers.

Colorado outlaws rain barrels. Can the ban be lifted?

Put a bucket under your downspout and collect rain running off your roof to water your garden. You’re an outlaw in Colorado. Critics have lambasted...