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DA consortium on Zenzinger fortune cookies: No crime here

With less than a week to go before the votes are counted in her hotly-contested district, Colorado state Senate candidate Rachel Zenzinger is working...

Battle for the Capitol: What’s at stake if Colorado’s Legislature flips?

  WALSENBURG, CO — On a recent Wednesday in the back of the Alpine Rose Cafe, an old-school diner with cracked green vinyl booths in...

On the radar: Two sleeper statehouse races to watch this year

UPDATE: On Oct. 24, two days after this story ran, Rep. Tim Leonard amended his campaign finance filing to correctly identify the consulting firm....

Mysterious dark-money fliers target highly contested Colorado House and Senate races

Anonymous fliers are targeting candidates in the suburban battlegrounds of hotly contested Colorado House and Senate races — a tactic political observers say is...

Hard-to-trace ‘gray money’ raises the stakes in big Colorado races

With the election only a month away and mail ballots due out in less than two weeks, “gray money” groups are pouring millions of...

The big spending is on for state House and Senate races

With Election Day just 48 days away — and mail ballots out in 26 days — candidates for the state House and Senate are...

Jailed Colorado man heads to court for Facebook message threatening to...

  A Jefferson County man was in court today after police arrested him on suspicion of sending a graphic, threatening Facebook message to Republican Colorado...

State House and Senate races starting to add up, dollar-wise

Updated: to include statement from Colorado Education Association on why they endorsed Republican Katy Brown in House District 3 over her Democratic opponent, Jeff...

Zenzinger v. Woods state Senate race heats up

Campaign finance reports suggest state Republicans fear that uber-conservative state Sen. Laura Woods is in danger of being ousted from her Senate District 19 in...

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...