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Media: Gov. Jared Polis riffs on government intervention to help COVID-battered...

During one of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis's many public news conferences about COVID-19, a reporter made note of impacts the virus is having on...

MEDIA: đź“» How a school-shooting comment got a KNUS host canned...

Even on conservative talk radio where hosts sometimes mock safe spaces and PC culture, there are some comments so out of bounds they can...

Longmont could be testing ground for limits of local control over...

On Dec. 4, Boulder County District Court Judge Nancy W. Salomone reversed an earlier decision to reopen the 2014 case involving an oil and...

Media: Could there or should there be a publicly-funded local news...

It's time to add another local news experiment to test-tube Colorado where some folks in Longmont are proposing some sort of local news operation that...

UPDATED: What’s going on with this crazy drug dog story in...

UPDATE, July 18: Results from an independent investigation into this matter are in. Well, some results. On July 14, Longmont officials told media how police conducted...

Cities can’t ban fracking, Colorado Supreme Court rules

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today voters cannot enact local fracking bans. The ruling applied to two cases, one over a 2012 ban on fracking...

Colorado Supreme Court weighs legality of city fracking bans

Anti-fracking activists gathered outside the judicial center to demand that the court allow cities to pass fracking bans and moratoriums without state interference --...

Wiretap: Klingenschmitt punishes himself

Curse of God House Republicans stripped Gordon "Dr. Chaps" Klingenschmitt of one of his two committee assignments as a way of punishing him for being,...

Last-ditch fracking legislative push doomed from the start

State lawmakers here working feverishly in the last days of the legislative session failed to come up with a bill that could ease the high tensions building for years around boom-time drilling and fracking in Colorado, tensions that were never likely to be eased at the capitol.

Coloradans eye rulings around country in favor of local fracking bans

BOULDER -- Supporters of local bans on the oil-and-gas drilling process known as fracking celebrated a key high court victory in Pennsylvania last week.