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The Stanley Hotel during the summer

Colorado signs off on $1 million to turn iconic hotel into Stanley Film Center

By Sarah Mulholland

Tanker rail cars at the Suncor oil refinery north of Denver

Colorado Supreme Court considers whether Boulder’s climate lawsuit against Exxon and Suncor can proceed

By Sam Brasch and Ishan Thakore

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Government and Politics

With half a billion dollars of federal funding for Colorado in limbo, top state officials demand answers

By Caitlyn Kim and Sam Brasch

Multiple shelves of books in a library

Books in school libraries could get an extra layer of protection from bans

By Jenny Brundin

CU BOULDER CAMPUS PANDEMIC LIFE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

CU Regents consider budget plans that include tuition hikes and potential cutting of cybersecurity and medical programs

By Jenny Brundin

Downtown Denver shrouded in snowy mist with other buildings in the foreground.

Winter storm brings snow and subzero temperatures to Colorado

A group of disability advocates speak at the state capitol.

Government and Politics

Frustration mounts with delayed athletic prosthetic coverage law

By Bente Birkeland

Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell

With a lawsuit on pause for now, Colorado sheriff says he’s clear to work on immigration

By Allison Sherry

King Soopers parking lot

King Soopers sues union for collaborating with out-of-state organizers

Olympic rings in Tokyo

Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of an investigator charged with sex crimes

By The Associated Press

Four Colorado firefighters stand arm-in-arm on a street in downtown Los Angeles.

Colorado firefighters reflect on helping LA wildfire victims and look ahead to better local collaboration

A woman, whose face is obscurred by her long black hair, prepares vials in a science lab. She is wearing a white coat and blue medical gloves.

Colorado joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s NIH cuts that could dismantle state’s health research industry

Roger Bland and his damaged Subaru

Colorado Wonders

Does Colorado pay out claims for damage caused by shoddy roads? Yes, but only rarely

By Nathaniel Minor

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State troopers will inspect whether trucks follow chain laws along I-70 on Monday

How does psilocybin alter the brain? We talked to a scientist to find out

By Alejandro A. Alonso Galva and Andrea Dukakis

A gun on a glass table top

Colorado to consider adding ‘Do Not Sell’ registry to prevent suicides from firearms

Two electric vehicles charges stand next to each other with snow on the ground and blue skies.

Trump puts up roadblocks to Colorado’s plan to build electric vehicle chargers along highways

A young girl in a winter jacket kneels in concrete on a snow day

How a 12-year-old’s petition to protect snow days snowballed into changes for her school district

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