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The U.S. Supreme Court hears Colorado’s ‘faithless electors’ case From his...

DENVER — When it came time Wednesday for Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser to make his first-ever arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, he...

Colorado will fight Trump administration’s rollback to vehicle emissions standards Emissions...

Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser said on Tuesday he plans to sue the Trump administration over its new rule undoing Obama-era vehicle emissions standards.  The...

Report: Sexual abuse of children went on for decades in Colorado’s...

At least 166 children were sexually abused by 43 Catholic priests in Colorado over the past 70 years, according to an independent investigator's report...

Colorado asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop so-called ‘faithless electors’ Colorado...

This story was originally published on Oct. 16. On Jan. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear the case that could determine whether...

Colorado to pay Clarence Moses-EL $2M for the 28 years he...

Clarence Moses-EL, a Denver man who spent nearly half his life in prison on a wrongful rape and assault conviction, will be awarded about...

Slideshow: Denver’s MLK Marade embraces black lives, inclusiveness and human rights

It’s been three years since Black Lives Matter activists commandeered Denver’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade in the wake of the death of...

Attorney General Weiser opposes The Colorado Independent in court records fight...

In his first week on the job, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser officially opposed The Colorado Independent’s petition before the U.S. Supreme Court to...

New sheriff, new town: Jared Polis takes reins from Hickenlooper in...

Colorado had never seen an Inauguration Day like it did on Tuesday. It had never seen a governor-elect descend the Capitol steps in blue sneakers,...

A Colorado journalist’s secret: While covering the state Capitol, he was...

In June, I shared a story about a KUSA 9News TV reporter in Denver who went on camera to talk about his personal struggle with mental health...

Littwin: In case Trump missed it, the Dem victories in Colorado...

Pick your adjective to describe the Democratic tsunami in Colorado Tuesday — huge, monumental, colossal, ginormous  — and I promise I can top it. This...