An explainer on Ballot Issue 7A on the Front Range, on a one-third-cent sales tax to expand the proposed Front Range Passenger Rail service.

The measure was written by conservative activists, who are offering it as a counterweight to Colorado laws and policies aimed to reduce the use of natural gas in the state as part of its goal of reduc...

The ballot measure would require police and prosecutors to notify the Department of Homeland Security when someone living in the U.S. illegally, or with uncertain immigrant status, is charged with a v...

Amendment 86 would require public input and a court review of any mid-decade congressional redistricting in Colorado.

Lawmakers passed bipartisan legislation to pay for peer counseling addiction services in 2021. The cost of the program rapidly exploded.

Health insurance prices for people who buy coverage on their own are set to increase by 10% statewide on average in Colorado in 2027.

The poll was conducted by a Republican firm on behalf of a conservative political nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors and is backing Evans, the district’s Republican incumbent

Gia, a rescue dog, attended bill signings and news conferences, meetings with big-name politicians and members of the governor’s cabinet

Dark money groups are financially backing Amendment 86, which aims to make it harder to redraw congressional districts outside of the normal census-driven process

The unrelenting rise in healthcare costs has left state lawmakers facing a $1.6 billion deficit in the 2027-28 budget year

Yes, Colorado’s gas prices have been slightly higher than the national average. But experts and the numbers tell a more nuanced story.

No Going Back PAC’s spending to defend Crank in the 5th CD highlights how worried Republicans are about losing the seat for the first time

The premier restaurant guide started surveying four major Colorado culinary scenes in 2023. This year, the anonymous agents scoured the whole state.

Democrat Jessica Killin is running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in the 5th Congressional District. She would be the first Democrat to represent the district.

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Rutinel is challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in the 8th Congressional District north of Denver

61% of Latino voters in the district said they disapprove of President Donald Trump

Xcel tried to condemn a 550-foot strip of Cheyenne County ranchland to link wind farms to a substation. The landowner objected to the route.

New evidence shows pure politics was behind the Trump administration's threat to dismantle Boulder's NCAR climate lab, a lawsuit says

Colorado Medicaid officials said they have mailed the letters warning people they must prove they worked at least 80 hours per month

Initiative 195 will ask voters to raise Colorado’s flat 4.4% income tax rate on income earned by people and corporations that exceeds $500,000

The Democratic state representative running in the highly competitive 8th Congressional District has been dogged by Republicans over his past criticism of animal agriculture

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Friday afternoon that the backers of Initiative 234 collected enough voter signatures to get the question on the November ballot

The Front Range Passenger Rail District’s board of directors voted to ask for a 33-cent sales tax increase on every $100 spent to raise $295 million a year for Colorado Connector

Construction industry-backed group says “funding framework” will provide more dollars than proposed constitutional amendment

At the beginning of this year’s election cycle, Hurd appeared to be cruising toward an easy reelection. But as President Trump’s approval ratings have cratered nationally in recent months, suddenly th...

The pardons come 3 months after the governor commuted the sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday that the supporters of Initiative 362 turned in a sufficient number of voter signatures to get the question on this year’s ballot

Minor party candidates make the ballot through party conventions and will be listed after the major-party candidates. The unaffiliated candidates will be next. They had to collect signatures to qualif...

The court effectively ruled that Democratic states like Colorado were too early when they launched their legal challenges earlier this year to Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting mail voting

Since Tina Peters' sentence was commuted, she has toured conspiracy conferences, stood with President Trump in the Oval Office and drawn interest from a California elections office.

A federal judge temporarily blocked part of a new state law expanding Colorado's public health authority over immigrant detention centers.

Colorado will suspend Medicaid coverage for some types of gender-affirming care for transgender youth due to a new federal rule.

Initiative 232 was brought by the conservative political nonprofit Advance Colorado and seeks to derail a push by liberal groups to pass a separate graduated income tax ballot measure this year

A final decision is expected to be made later this year by party leaders

In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the 8th Congressional District by 5 points. But in 2024, Donald Trump won it by 2 points — a larger margin of victory than Evans’.

The high cost of getting a ballot measure on Colorado ballots has given wealthy interests more power to push their agendas

The 54-year-old retired Marine was originally running for the US Senate this year, but he failed to make the GOP primary ballot

Blue Mesa, the largest reservoir in Colorado, is about a quarter full and could drop further without summer rains. Officials are making cuts to save it.

Initiative 177 seeks to prevent bans on natural gas sales and use in Colorado

The mighty Colorado River, which supports millions of people across the West, saw its lowest flows in over a decade this week.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department failed to justify access to unredacted Colorado voter records and dismissed a lawsuit with prejudice