Author: ERIN PRATER

Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn has joined a pair of senior congressional Democrats in calling for the Pentagon’s watchdog to investigate the role of political influence in the Trump administration’s decision to uproot U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs. “I’m going to be insisting on making sure the inspector general’s office can do…

COVID directly caused 3,588 deaths in Colorado last year – less than a quarter of some of the worst-case scenarios proffered by the state’s coronavirus modeling team last fall, according to preliminary data released Friday by the state. A Dec. 4 report from the state’s COVID-19 modeling group – a multidisciplinary team comprised of experts at colleges…

Colorado school districts will have access to more than 1 million rapid COVID-19 tests per month to better track the coronavirus as the pandemic enters a new year, Gov. Jared Polis said Wednesday. The state is one of three to partner with BinaxNOW, which produces rapid COVID-19 tests, to bring the tests to public and…

Coronavirus is again surging in Colorado’s Front Range, if toilets are a telltale, potentially signaling a post-holiday increase in cases. Wastewater in large swaths of the Denver metro area, Boulder, northern Colorado Springs and Pueblo West is showing an increase in levels of the virus, shed by infected individuals in stool, according to data released…

Colorado on Tuesday experienced its lowest new daily COVID-19 case count since late October, as the state’s seven-day average of new cases continued to decline ahead of the holidays and the potential arrival of a mutant new strain of the virus. Deaths, too, were down sharply, with Monday’s seven-day average of nearly 15 deaths the…

Colorado has hit another dire COVID-19 milestone, surpassing 4,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. Along with grim news was a glimmer of hope as cases and hospitalizations decline or stabilize: the number of expected deaths from the disease was lowered by hundreds and possibly thousands, state officials said. As of Wednesday, 4,156 Coloradans have died from…

Colorado Schools should offer on-site rapid COVID-19 testing to staff and students who are symptomatic, Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday, the same day state education officials announced the first year-over-year decrease in public school enrollment in more than 30 years. “Little Johnny has a runny nose, instant test. The teacher has a symptom, instant test.…

Colorado was more COVID-cautious “than many states” this Thanksgiving, performing “fairly well” when it came to taking precautions over the holiday, Gov. Jared Polis said Friday, adding that the state is seeing a “leveling out” in cases. “It hasn’t gotten much worse, but it hasn’t gotten much better,” Polis said during a virtual press conference,…