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

By KFF Health News

A nurse prepares a dose of the flu vaccine.

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

Copper Mountain Jacque Peak Expansion

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

A bottle of the MMR vaccine photographed in Lubbock, Texas, where a measles outbreak has sickened dozens.

What Coloradans need to know about measles as outbreaks pop up around the US

Lights on a police vehicle.

Former clerk for one of Colorado’s smallest towns pleads guilty to embezzlement

An on-board camera on a lunar lander shows the lander resting on its side on the Moon. Earth is seen in the background.

What’s next for Lunar Outpost’s rover mission after moon lander got stuck on its side

Body-worn camera video shows a man with a long rifle approaching a person with their back to him

Despite efforts at reform, Colorado officers still shoot people at a high rate

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Government and Politics

Could Colorado stay on daylight saving time?

By Arlo Pérez Esquivel

A man in a tan pullover points to a booklet in front of a child wearing a blue seizure-protecting helmet. A boy in a red shirt holding a pencil is in the foreground,

Teacher candidates would take fewer tests under a bill to boost Colorado’s special educator ranks

By Jenny Brundin

A line outside a COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinic

Resilience shines through as Coloradans reflect on five years since the pandemic shut the state down

U.S. Capitol Dome

Government and Politics

From laid off Forest Service workers to family members, here’s who Colorado’s members of Congress are bringing to the president’s address

a silver box-shaped robotic lunar rover with antennas sticking up rolls around the lunar surface near two large Moon rocks.

Rover built in Colorado could be the first US robot to explore the moon, expected to land Thursday

A man who is a sugar beet farmer stands in front of a large, red sugar beet harvester. He's holding a special knife with a curved tip that farmworkers used to use to harvest sugar beets by hand.

Colorado Wonders

The vegetable that satisfies our sweet tooth. What happened to the sugar beet industry in Colorado?

RTD’s growing police department just lost another leader

By Nathaniel Minor

Budget shortfall means Colorado’s young children with developmental delays will get fewer services

By Jenny Brundin

Looking uphill at the avalanche that killed a backcountry rider.

Avalanches in western US claim more lives in recent weeks, including a weekend death in Colorado

By The Associated Press

Mikaela Shiffrin competes in alpine ski race in Italy.

Mikaela Shiffrin gets historic 100th World Cup race win and ties record for most podiums

By The Associated Press

tax return form

State plans tax support messages to help Coloradans access credits despite filing delays

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