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Update | Effort to recall Senate President Leroy Garcia falls short...

Update, Oct. 18: The recall of Senate President Leroy Garcia failed on Friday, after organizers fell short by more than 13,386 signatures. The Secretary...

Capitol review: 4 key immigrant bills passed, but a big one...

Editor's note: The Indy is publishing a series of short stories reviewing the 2019 legislative session in Colorado. Here, we focus on immigration. We...

Senate narrowly passes red-flag bill, 18-17; measure expected to advance...

Editor's note:  With an 18-17 vote, the Senate Thursday afternoon narrowly passed Colorado's controversial red-flag bill, would allow police to temporarily confiscate a person’s firearms...

Don’t call them freshmen: New Colorado lawmakers reject term as gendered,...

The common term for first-time legislators in Colorado, as in many other places, is “freshmen.” But some among the state’s crop of incoming state representatives...

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...