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Death penalty repeal: Capitol Dems say ‘full steam ahead’ on legislation...

Twenty states have banned or suspended the death penalty, and this could be the year Colorado joins them. Public support for capital punishment is...

Colorado Democrats scrap plan to make Election Day a holiday, citing...

Voting rights advocates across the country have long believed Election Day should be a legal holiday. Millions of non-voters say they’re too busy to...

For Colorado citizens, a deal with prosecutors could mean a clean...

Here’s a process that plays out hundreds of times every year in Colorado: A person is charged with a low-level crime such as simple...

A record number of Latinos to join the state legislature, but...

On Wednesday afternoon, about 24 hours after the polls closed, Rochelle Galindo was at her mother’s house in Greeley watching the votes trickle in...

Bennet-backing Latino leaders demand apology from Romanoff for photoshop blunder

A coalition of Colorado Latino leaders who mostly back Sen. Michael Bennet in the campaign for U.S. Senate blasted Andrew Romanoff for a photo-doctoring...