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Colorado Arts Spotlight: BIFF, a new music and beer festival, Arvada Center’s upcoming season schedule and more

By Lauren Antonoff Hart

· Mar. 13, 2025

Lunar eclipse expected to create a ‘blood moon’ tonight. Here’s what to know

· Mar. 13, 2025

Colorado Springs D11 now requires parental consent when students want to change their names to match gender identity

· Mar. 13, 2025

Copper Mountain wants to expand wider and higher with the highest ski lift in North America

· Mar. 13, 2025

This flu season looks like it might be Colorado’s worst one in 20 years

A nurse prepares a dose of the flu vaccine.

Lincoln Health Community Hospital

Financial challenges and possible Medicaid cuts puts many rural hospitals at risk of closure, says new report

Election Security Colorado Clerk

Colorado calls DOJ interest in Tina Peters’ case a ‘grotesque attempt to weaponize the rule of law’

By Bente Birkeland

Erica Green,

Hospital gun-violence prevention programs may be caught in US funding crossfire

By KFF Health News

Terri Ruffennach fields questions from second-graders

Colorado education landscape reels over Trump’s gutting of the US Department of Education

By Jenny Brundin

Jean Inaba is retiring! Wish her well.

By Jessie Jacobs

· Mar. 13, 2025

The Colorado Capitol in Denver

Government and Politics

Colorado lawmakers cut bill-drafting power of teen panel, but opt to keep 20-year-old Capitol program

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

· Mar. 12, 2025

LAUREN BOEBERT PRIMARY ELECTION WATCH PARTY IN WINDSOR

Government and Politics

Boebert stands by ‘pimp cane’ comments about Texas Representative Al Green, even as she faces censure

· Mar. 12, 2025

A yellow-and-black rifles lies on a table with its magazine detached.

Government and Politics

Colorado bill restricting sale of certain semiautomatic guns clears first House committee after notable tweaks

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

· Mar. 12, 2025

Children's books on a shelf

Colorado teachers need help teaching English learners to read. The state wants more training.

· Mar. 12, 2025

Four U.S. Representatives, Anna Paulina Luna, Brittany Pettersen, Sara Jacobs and Mike Lawler, stand together outside the U.S. Capitol. Pettersen holds her six-week-old son, Sam, in her arms.

Government and Politics

U.S. House is one step closer to a vote on proxy voting for new parents

· Mar. 12, 2025

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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