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Update: Colorado’s public/private healthcare option clears first hurdle The battle lines...

Update, March 12: Late Wednesday night, members of the Colorado House Health and Insurance Committee passed a bill to create a new health...

Colorado’s plan to avoid a water shortage needs money. Is a...

This story was originally published on Sept. 26, 2019.  In November, Colorado voters will decide whether to legalize and tax sports betting to help pay...

Climate is changing for the better, Colorado state senator says He...

Climate change has led to “massive improvements” and “the planet is a thing that heals itself,” state Sen. Ray Scott argued Thursday morning. Scott, a...

Lawmakers move ahead with net neutrality bill, focusing first on rural...

Update: The net neutrality bill passed the House on April 4 and is now on its way to Gov. Jared Polis, who is expected...

Colorado women are conquering the statehouse. Is a U.S. Senate seat...

Colorado has a dismal record when it comes to electing women to high office: It joins Idaho, Indiana, Virginia and Pennsylvania as the five...

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...

Two candidates for this rural Senate seat push different solutions to...

CARBONDALE - At the head of the Crystal River Valley, automated sprinklers trundle across fields that hug Highway 133, scattering precious water over green...

The balance of power in the Colorado state legislature is up...

The Colorado Senate GOP tweeted a photo on Wednesday that shows Senator Beth Martinez Humenik wearing boxing gloves and blasting the Democrats’ preliminary transportation...

Meet the “Mod Squad”: centrist state Senate lawmakers who don’t always...

In July 2012, Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing his Christian...

Colorado’s fight over land and water rights hits the Statehouse

Millions of Coloradans and tourists agree they love public lands, which take up more than a third of the state. Thousands of residents depend...