WATCH LIVE: Lee Zeldin testifies on EPA budget
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is testifying before the House Energy Committee.
He will present the EPA’s 2026 budget request from the Trump administration and face questions from lawmakers.
The clock is ticking: Negotiations stall on Colorado River water-sharing pact
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
With a critical Nov. 11 deadline fast approaching, negotiators from the seven Colorado River basin states remain at odds over how to manage a river that serves 40 million people — and which, experts long agree, is overallocated. Negotiations are...
Museum’s ‘Passport to Play’ was both fun and profitable | NONPROFIT REGISTER
Joanne Davidson
joanne-davidson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF DENVER AT MARSICO CAMPUS Denver News: His role as president and chief executive officer of the Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus requires Mike Yankovich to wear many hats: exhibit developer, growth and innovation catalyst, number-cruncher,...
CPW fires ranger allegedly involved in stabbing hoax at state park
Spencer McKee
spencer-mckee@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 12 hours ago
On Aug. 19, seasonal park ranger Callum Heskett, 26, is said to have reported that he had been stabbed by an attacker at Colorado’s Staunton State Park. Callum was transported to a local hospital with a serious torso injury, with...
Israel bombs another Gaza City high-rise as US advances a new ceasefire proposal
Wafaa Shurafa
wafaa.shurafa@associatedpress.com
Updated 4 days ago
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City on Monday after warning residents to evacuate, part of an offensive aimed at taking over the largest Palestinian city. The military said it was...
Ballot measure seeks tax hike for higher income earners in 2026
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 week ago
A coalition led by a Colorado think tank will file a ballot initiative on Wednesday to raise state income tax rates on annual household incomes and corporations with earnings above $500,000. The ballot measure, which sets up a “graduated” income...
Colorado Democrats blast Trump’s decision to relocate Space Command as a ‘nakedly political move’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning+co@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 week ago
Leading Democratic officials in Colorado on Tuesday ripped President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. Space Command will move from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, as a politically motivated decision meant to reward Republican friends while putting the nation’s military...
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition
Associated Press
associated-press@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 week ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to Chicago and Baltimore, despite local officials in both places opposing such moves. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office if he had decided...
Tech group lauds move to delay new AI regulation
Luige Del Puerto
luige-del-puerto+copo@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 weeks ago
A technology trade group on Tuesday lauded a move by the Colorado Senate to delay the implementation of new artificial intelligence regulations originally set to take effect early next year. Under the proposal approved by senators yesterday, the new implementation...
Feds OK expansion of mine that supplies coal to Montana’s largest power plant | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
Associated Press
associated-press@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 weeks ago
MONTANA Feds OK coal mine expansion The federal government has authorized a nearly 1,900-acre expansion of the mine that supplies Montana’s largest power plant with coal. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced on Aug. 6 that it...
Gov. Polis unveils new Colorado River information hub at annual Water Congress
Eugene Buchanan
eugene@paddlinglife.com
Updated 3 weeks ago
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis opened the 2025 Summer Colorado Water Congress Conference at the Steamboat Grand Hotel by unveiling a new information site and leading a panel on federal water funding and wildfire impacts. Speaking to a packed Grand Ballroom,...