Colorado's two U.S. senators introduced one of their predecessors Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to consider former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's nomination to become U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Continue Reading
UCHealth and Denver Health will require all staff and volunteers be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months or face termination, the systems announced Wednesday, making them the first major hospital systems in the state to require inoculation. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators reached agreement Wednesday on a $1 trillion national infrastructure package, and the Senate appeared ready to begin consideration of the key part of the administration's agenda. An evening test vote was possible. Continue Reading
Two competing ballot measures regarding the potential redevelopment of Denver’s Park Hill Golf Course will appear on the November ballot, according to the Clerk and Recorder Office. Continue Reading
Attorneys for Kyle Vinson said he remained hospitalized and faced "a long road" to recovery a day after the Aurora Police Department released a video of his alleged assault at the hands of officers. Continue Reading
The Denver City Council housing committee approved several contracts Wednesday to extend services for the emergency rental assistance program, passing the proposal to the full council for a final vote in the coming weeks. Continue Reading
The cooperation is to focus on people prohibited from having guns because of felony convictions and considered likely to have a propensity for violence, according to a news release. Continue Reading
Earlier this month, the CDC said that vaccinated students and school staff could go maskless, but that school leaders could issue universal masking policies if they saw fit. Children under 12 aren’t yet eligible for vaccines, but the previous guidance left room for high schools with vaccinated staff and students to operate without face coverings. Continue Reading
Colorado is believed to be one the first to put into place a statewide law like this. Continue Reading
Denver isn't re-instituting any of its COVID-19 measures in the wake of new masking guidelines from the federal government, while other metro-area counties are waiting to see how the state responds to the recommendations. Continue Reading
Even with above-average precipitation in the last two months in all of Colorado's river basins, the state's average for this water year is still well below normal. Continue Reading
After Denver Water sued Boulder County for meddling in its planned expansion of Gross Reservoir, the proposal has been put on hold, officials announced Tuesday. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's latest leap into the Senate's up-and-down efforts to clinch a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure deal comes with even more at stake than his coveted plans for boosting road, rail and other public works projects. Continue Reading
“I believe that this case, or one similar to it, is likely to end up before the Supreme Court at some point in the future, but the Court doesn’t seem anxious to rule on these types of cases anytime soon,” said one civil rights attorney. Continue Reading
State officials stayed local when picking the new head of the Colorado Tourism Office. Continue Reading
Former colleagues and Coloradans who knew former U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi mourned the death Monday of the 77-year-old former shoe salesman from Gillette, Wyoming, who retired earlier this year after serving four terms in the Senate. Continue Reading
Denver officials presented the final project list for Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed $450 million bond package Tuesday, receiving mixed reactions from the City Council's finance committee. Continue Reading
Colorado added a batch of new locations where residents can get vaccinated and receive $100 Walmart gift cards this week, extending its latest vaccination push. Continue Reading
Longtime Denver businessman, lawyer and philanthropist Donald Lee Kortz died Sunday. He was 81. Continue Reading
Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson has ordered an expedited internal affairs investigation into a Friday incident on South Parker Road in which an officer beat an unarmed man with his gun during a trespassing call. Continue Reading
On July 31, two governmental orders that shield renters from eviction will expire. Continue Reading
The Aurora City Council once again failed to fill its Ward Two vacancy Monday after nearly 100 rounds of voting over eight hours resulted in ties. Continue Reading
A suit against El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder will move forward after a federal appellate court in Denver ruled Tuesday there is "ample evidence" that he allowed allies in the sheriff's office to speak freely about politics, while punishing an employee who supported his election rival. Continue Reading
Denver-based Frontier Airlines on Tuesday announced the addition of 20 new nonstop routes, including several international, in what company officials are calling “one of our largest international expansions ever.” Continue Reading
They want to delay a confirmation vote on Tracy Stone-Manning until there's a commitment to keep the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction. Continue Reading
Dell has stopped shipping certain highly energy-intensive gaming computers to customers in six states with new electricity consumption regulations. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection opened its first hearing Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke into the building — an effort to put a human face on the violence of the day. Continue Reading
By a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected a First Amendment challenge to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act from Lorie Smith and her company, 303 Creative LLC. Smith, a website designer, sought to warn potential clients that she would not create wedding websites featuring same-sex couples because of her Christian beliefs. Continue Reading
The Denver City Council approved the first votes of several ordinances Monday, including designating a new historic cultural district, prohibiting discrimination based on protective hairstyles and removing “illegal alien” from city law. Continue Reading
Federal authorities took custody of three of the suspects arrested in connection with a stash of guns and drugs found in a downtown hotel earlier this month at the request of police to ensure the suspects would not be released, a senior city government official has confirmed to The Denver Gazette. Continue Reading
Randy Moore, 66, took command as Chief of the United States Forest Service on Monday, replacing Vicki Christiansen, who has served as Chief since 2018. Christiansen is retiring after 40 years in forestry and wildland fire management. Continue Reading
Warning of what might happen if it let other states regulate Colorado's outdoor recreation economy, the federal appeals court based in Denver has rejected a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a Texas man who died while rappelling in Lake County. Continue Reading
Denver is setting aside another $500,000 to improve the city's vaccination rate among certain communities, Mayor Michael Hancock said Monday, with a portion of that money going to free doses for students and their families. Continue Reading
A Colorado Supreme Court order might have given the state’s redistricting commissioners a little more time to finish their maps, but it’s not entirely clear what the court’s decision on Monday means. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The United States served notice Monday that it will keep existing COVID-19 restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant. Continue Reading
After white supremacists allegedly attacked a Colorado inmate for being a "snitch," he sued corrections officials for failing to place him in protective custody. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that his claims may proceed to trial against one of them. Continue Reading
Mental Health Colorado celebrated scoring about $132 million for new programs in the legislative session that ended last month. Continue Reading
The Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to mandate coronavirus vaccination for employees Monday when its leaders gave heath care workers eight weeks to get inoculated. Continue Reading
Last year, some students decided to defer college, disrupting the usual routine for many students after high school. This year, students didn’t defer college, but the impacts of the pandemic has shaped their college choices. Continue Reading
If you sat through a hearing on a bill during the last legislative session, it's likely that some of the testimony you heard came from Meghan Dollar. Continue Reading
In Colorado Politics' roundup of news from the third branch of government: Are the White House and U.S. Senate not going to fill an appeals court vacancy based on the federal judiciary's request? Also, a national legal association is honoring a former Denver judge and longtime diversity advocate. Continue Reading
You can watch the mayor's speech live on Denver 8 TV. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — Senators were running into new problems Monday as they raced to seal a bipartisan infrastructure deal with pressure mounting on all sides to show progress on President Joe Biden's top priority. Continue Reading
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock delivered his 11th State of the City address Monday morning, but in many ways it was like none other as the nation stands a step back from the precipice of the pandemic. Continue Reading
Joey Bunch: "Educational bipartisanship isn’t new — Republican Gov. Bill Owens appointed Democratic Rep. Peggy Lamm in 1999, for one — but the need for bipartisanship is now no less than preserving our union at stake. If those walls come down, the next generation will swing the sledgehammer." Continue Reading
Mateo Jaramillo doesn’t want to hear talk of a “breakthrough,” at least not yet. That would understate the challenge of what his startup, Form Energy, is trying to achieve and what more it has to do to accomplish its goal — providing the missing link to decarbonization of the power system. Continue Reading
CoPo's weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. Continue Reading
Denver Economic Development and Opportunity has opened applications for a grant program for nonprofits, resident groups and micro businesses to fund projects that improve the quality of life in their communities. Continue Reading
Commuter data company Commutifi seems perfectly positioned to help large Colorado companies navigate new rules being set by the state’s health department to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from employee commuters. Continue Reading
