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Personality trumps policy in the Dem gov primary at El Paso...

COLORADO SPRINGS — For some Democrats here in one of the more conservative areas of Colorado, a decision between two top candidates for governor...

Try, try again: Latest attempt at Colorado school funding measure would...

Colorado voters could see a $1.6 billion tax increase for education on their November ballots. Backers of a major school funding measure have been cleared...

Colorado Legislature 2018: Shortfalls in a time of plenty

When lawmakers drive to Denver next week to convene the 2018 legislative session, they will see about a dozen cranes across the city’s skyline,...

Cary Kennedy on the stump: Change TABOR, give locals more control...

At a Tuesday campaign stop on a liberal arts campus in Colorado Springs, Democrat Cary Kennedy said if she becomes governor she would want...

Five things we learned when Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates got on the...

Nine Republicans and Democrats hoping to become Colorado’s next governor offered contrasting views Friday of the state’s public schools to an audience of more...

Former U.S. drug czar Bennett: Colorado will come to regret legalizing...

Those who oppose the legalization of marijuana are losing the battle, says the nation’s first drug czar, William Bennett, who served in that capacity...

Did the Colorado legislature’s biggest compromise set a Republican tripwire over...

UPDATE: Since this story was posted, 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, who is running for governor as a Republican, said after thinking about...

Five(ish) takeaways from the 2017 legislative session

The 2017 legislative session may have done more for rural Colorado than any session in the past two decades.   “Rural, rural, rural! Music to my...

Bill to save rural hospitals survives Republican headwinds, up for final...

The sweeping omnibus bill to save rural hospitals, provide a one-time funding boost to rural schools and a tax break for small business is...

Gov. Race 2018: Brauchler and Robinson would both sign deal to...

Two Republicans running for governor in 2018 say that despite reservations if they were currently in the office they would sign a compromise bill...