We parsed through nearly 650 pieces of legislation debated in the legislature this year to find the ones that will most directly impact people’s lives.

Lawmakers have only a few more weeks to get a data center bill over the finish line

State Rep. Brandi Bradley of Littleton forced the reading of the 661-page bill in protest of the House’s handling of an ethics complaint she filed against a fellow GOP state representative. She hoped ...

Since 2019, Democrats have passed bills imposing new fees to pay for everything from transportation projects to waste diversion initiatives. Last year, some members of the party started saying “no mor...

A parole backlog and longer sentences are causing a surge in Colorado's prison population

Nearly 14,000 Colorado children are waiting for government-subsidized relief, and for some that means their parents can’t afford to go to work

Medicaid took the brunt of the final reductions, include a reimbursement rate cut for providers and a cap on Cover All Coloradans, which provides health care to immigrants who are children or pregnant

Gov. Jared Polis and state housing officials have prioritized new construction over preserving existing affordable rental housing.

The former state representative is taking heat in the 8th Congressional District Democratic primary for her votes on immigration bills and funding questions

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee has already been slashing spending for weeks as it works to draft the state’s 2026-27 fiscal year budget. That includes cuts to Medicaid, which is the primary ...

The news was met with shock from state lawmakers, who have been reeling in recent weeks as they cut Medicaid and other state services to address a $1 billion budget shortfall

Local police chiefs opposed the bill. Two Democrats voted with Republicans to reject it.

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, which drafts the state budget, voted last week to move forward with reductions to the hours family caregivers can be reimbursed for

The state predicts that the Covering All Coloradans program will cost Colorado $104.5 million in the fiscal year that began July 1. Nonpartisan fiscal analysts estimated the cost would be $14.7 millio...

Advocates and city staff say the policy change has caused an epic bottleneck, stalling the majority of Boston’s transit and street safety projects for the past year.

The letter warned that clemency would be a gift to conspiracy theorists and risks undermining the safety of future elections

Lawyers for immigrants allege officers are violating a court order limiting how they can arrest people

The district wants to settle on a name before deciding whether to put a measure on the ballot that would increase sales taxes along the Front Range

The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the legislature Wednesday whether Polis should offer Peters clemency after the governor all but said on social media Tuesday that he plans to do so

The Colorado Sun wants to talk to you about your experience using apps to access money before your paycheck arrives

Mayor Mike Johnston’s order requires local law enforcement to intervene when federal agents use potentially deadly force in the city

The measure represents the legislature’s latest attempt to address artificial intelligence as the technology becomes increasingly prevalent

Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections

Colorado small businesses scrambled last spring to adjust orders, reroute manufacturing and find cash to pay the higher tariffs

The proposal, brought by an organization called Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, would ask voters to temporarily override the independent redistricting process that they enshrined in the constitu...

Half of those named have avoided trial and shaved years off possible sentences

Even before the universal policy, New Mexico had much more generous child care assistance than Colorado

The proposal, backed by top members of the Opportunity Caucus, comes after the group faced criticism for not disclosing who paid for their Vail retreat with lobbyists last year

Workers are protesting unsafe working conditions and an expired contract. Union also supports Haitian immigrants, who may lose TPS status

Unlike other governors, Colorado’s leader is so far signaling he’s not on board with policies to further rein in ICE

Senate President Pro Tempore Dafna Michaelson Jenet of Commerce City, who spent nearly a decade at the Capitol fighting for sexual assault survivors and to improve mental health care, said serving in ...

Farmers would need the a "prescription" from a third party to keep using the pesticides they say avoids fence-to-fence spraying

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that the 5th Congressional District is now on its list of “districts in play.” The designation may eventually come with money.

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Jason Crow and John Hickenlooper's donation announcements came after inquiries from The Colorado Sun last week and as criticism of Denver-based Palantir grows

Federal data show ghost guns are increasingly turning up at crime scenes

$300 million will continue to flow to Colorado's child care and safety net programs, per a preliminary injunction issued Friday

Lawyers representing immigrants are asking a federal judge to intervene again

The skiingest state in the U.S. is sending 29 skiers and snowboarders, two figure skaters and a bobsledder to the 25th Winter Olympics

The Democrat says it’s natural for voters to ask, but that he thinks people feel good about his explanation — which is that as governor he can both fight Donald Trump and chart a new path forward for ...

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota and the scale of the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities have delivered new urgency.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser petitioned the U.S. Department of Energy to rescind its “emergency” order keeping the coal-fired Craig Unit 1 open past Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s...

“It’s already come here. We’ve already seen the violence,” a Durango immigrant rights advocate says.

Many business groups are already lobbying against the measures. Gov. Jared Polis, as well as more moderate Democrats at the Capitol, could pose a roadblock to the bills becoming law, too.