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The Indy 500: Help The Indy and ProPublica document hate incidents...

There are, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 1,020 hate groups operating in the United States. Of those, 22 are in Colorado –...

Small moments, big news: The Indy’s best of 2018

Dear Readers, So much of the story of Colorado happens in smaller moments in people’s lives. As 2018 winds down, we look back over our...

Denver police open internal investigation into detaining of Colorado Independent editor

The Denver Police Department says it has opened an internal investigation into an incident in which The Colorado Independent’s Editor Susan Greene was handcuffed...

Indy Editor Susan Greene on surviving Colorado’s news apocalypse

Journalism in Colorado is under siege. And headlines keep coming about censorship, layoffs and protests in local newsrooms. Join Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene at the...

Supreme Court orders judge to justify hiding records about misconduct in...

The state Supreme Court has granted The Colorado Independent’s emergency petition for help in our fight to unseal records about prosecutorial misconduct in a...

The Indy is honored with 6 ‘Top of the Rockies’ journalism...

Journalists at The Colorado Independent took home six honors— including two first-place awards for investigative and enterprise reporting— in this year’s Top of the Rockies...

Aid-in-dying debate with The Indy

Where do you stand on Proposition 106, the aid-in-dying ballot initiative that would allow terminally ill adults to cause their deaths by taking a...

Why did Brad Udall join The Colorado Independent board?

Dear readers, This September I read an outstanding story Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene wrote about the making of Colorado’s first-ever statewide water plan. No other news media...

AINN to continue operating Colorado, Florida, Texas Independent websites

The Colorado Independent, an online-only investigative news organization that began as Colorado Confidential in 2006, will continue operating with its current three-person staff for the foreseeable future, according to officials at its parent nonprofit corporation.