-
There are a range of important local and state elections coming up this year. In this voter guide, you’ll find up-to-date information about registering to vote, upcoming candidate forums, and what’s on the ballot in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties.
-
For the first time, the Washington County Water Conservancy District has created a Spanish version of its workshop on water-efficient landscaping.
-
The Healthy School Meals for All program provides free breakfast and lunch to all of Colorado’s public school students. However, it has created an unforeseen gap in funding.
-
A group of Utah county governments behind the beleaguered Uinta Basin Railway has taken one more legal step to get the project back on track.
-
Garfield County commissioners declared the county a “non-sanctuary county,” despite no changes to its policies for law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. For Latino advocates, the move signals a new wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the county.
-
Water rights, sports gambling access, funding for health clinics, and funding for teachers were at the forefront of the tribes' statements.
-
The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.
-
Democratic lawmakers at the Colorado State House have passed legislation that creates exemptions to existing open meetings laws. The bill was passed and signed into law by Governor Polis during Sunshine Week which runs March 10-16.
-
The Gila River Indian Tribe (GRIC) in Arizona said it does not support the Lower Basin's proposal for post-2026 river management, adding a new layer to complicated negotiations.
-
Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers rode a demonstration train Thursday in a renewed push to develop the Front Range Passenger Rail from Fort Collins to Pueblo. The northern section, from Fort Collins to Denver, could open to the public as soon as 2027.
-
Though there isn’t a legal definition of a “sanctuary city” or county, commissioners used a recent meeting to emphasize their unwillingness to provide services and resources to new arrivals and undocumented immigrants.
-
The seven states that use water from the Colorado River have proposed competing plans for how it should be managed after 2026. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have one plan in mind. California, Arizona and Nevada have a different idea. The states primarily disagree about how to account for climate change and how to release water from Lake Powell.