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Arvada pays $2 million to settle 2021 police shooting case

· Jan. 17, 2025

FTC sues Greystar, saying the property manager used hidden fees to swindle renters out of millions

By The Associated Press

· Jan. 17, 2025

Visits to Vail’s ski resorts are down this winter

By Sarah Mulholland

· Jan. 17, 2025

Government and Politics

The number of vacancy appointed lawmakers serving in the Colorado legislature this year

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

· Jan. 17, 2025

This climate coalition wants Colorado union jobs to power the switch away from fossil fuels

By Ishan Thakore

Training director Dan Hendricks highlights equipment used by electricians in a training facility in Denver.

The Palisades Fire burns a neighborhood in California

California wildfires are still raging. Here’s why the risk isn’t the same in the Denver metro

Life and Culture

What does community mean to you? Coloradans share what they find important and their hopes for the future

By Lauren Antonoff Hart and Stephanie Rivera

The Art of the State in the main gallery

Colorado Arts Spotlight, Jan. 16 – 19: Art of the State and lots of live theatre

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Colorado lawmakers of Israeli and Palestinian heritage greet ceasefire with fragile hope

By Bente Birkeland

Humans cause most of Colorado’s wildfires, but a lack of investigative resources means few are held responsible

By Ben Markus and Veronica Penney

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ERPO in 8 charts: What we learned from reading hundreds of ‘red flag’ cases in Colorado

By Andrew Kenney

The new park "cap" over I-70 in Elyria Swansea. Nov. 30, 2022.

Colorado built a park over I-70 to contain pollution. Is the air safe to breathe?

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‘There’s winners and losers’: Colorado is hoping to reform mental health, but a failed overhaul in 2014 shows how political connections maintain the status quo

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