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Anti-LGBTQ bills doomed to die. Advocates say they still take a...

A year ago, Jaida began taking medicine to block her hormones and increase her estrogen levels in her transition from male to female. The...

Colorado residents near oil and gas sites have long worried about...

Rep. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a pharmacist and organic farmer from unincorporated Boulder County, said she can see oil and gas companies burning off excess...

Ask the Indy: What’s going on with universal health care in...

Steve Winters, a 55-year-old retired small business owner from Denver, has a straightforward question for The Colorado Independent: What are lawmakers and the governor doing...

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...