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Colorado’s roughly 30,000 state workers are slated to get pay raises in each of the next three years under a labor agreement signed Thursday morning by Gov. Jared Polis and the union representing state employees Polis said the benefits guaranteed in the agreement with...

Drought conditions have nearly enveloped Colorado this fall, as forecasters call for a dry winter across the West and a late-season fire blazes near Estes Park.The U.S. Drought Monitor maps released Thursday showed most of the state is now classified as in drought...

Colorado is experiencing a pediatric mental health “state of emergency,” experts say. | Evan Semón for Chalkbeat Six months after declaring a pediatric mental health “state of emergency,” a coalition including the statewide teachers union and Children’s Hospital...

Aurora will pay $15 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after he was dosed with ketamine during an encounter with Aurora police and paramedics in 2019. The settlement amount is likely the...

Twenty-three years after the International Space Station launched, Jessica Watkins, a Lafayette native, will become the first Black woman to stay on the space station for a long-duration mission.NASA announced Tuesday that Watkins will fly to the space station as a...

On Nov. 18, 2020, Colorado was four days away from hitting its highest average of new daily cases of the pandemic, a record that still stands a year later. On that day, there were 165 active outbreaks in the state's K-12 schools, infecting 600 students with confirmed...

Source: NurPhoto / Getty Over two years after Aurora, Colo. police officers killed Elijah McClain, and the city has settled with his family. The agreement was reached in federal court Friday due to a lawsuit filed by the family last August. The family will receive $15...

The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) has determined that referring to people who commit sexual crimes as “sex offenders” isn’t “person-first” language. Instead, rapists, flashers, peeping toms, and other perverts will be called an “Adult who commits...

Photos posted today to the conservative social media platform Telegram show law enforcement officers including the FBI executing a search warrant yesterday at the Grand Junction residence of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is under criminal investigation for her...