Colorado Watch: Investigative Journalism

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WATCH: Sexual Assault, The System & Colorado

Updated 5 days ago

For many survivors of sexual assault in Colorado, their cases can get lost in a complex justice system, with alleged perpetrators unpunished. Several women detail...

Toll to sexual assault survivors rises if they feel blamed and disbelieved

Updated 5 days ago

Natalie, a single mother, dropped off her son at daycare, went to therapy and then returned home. She swallowed a fistful of pills, washing them...

Colorado rape cases rarely result in an arrest and prosecution

Updated 5 days ago

Authorities say they are especially difficult cases. In Colorado, most go nowhere. Over the past decade, for every 10 reports of rape, there is only...

State audit: Rape kit backlog reduced but more work needed to hit goal

Updated 6 days ago

In the past year, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has slashed the time it takes to process DNA collected in sexual assault cases, but the...

Judge: CBI ordered to provide access to thousands of DNA cases

Updated 1 week ago

Colorado marijuana regulators consider major changes to how labs test for contaminants

Updated 3 weeks ago

Missy Woods pleads not guilty; trial set for fall

Updated 3 weeks ago

Cherry Creek school board was warned four years ago that superintendent’s marriage could be a problem

Updated 1 month ago

Colorado’s charitable gaming board to study Denver Gazette’s findings

Updated 1 month ago

A year of developments in the CBI forensic lab scandal

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado campaign debt collection efforts aren’t much of an effort

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado campaign finance penalties ‘a runaway train without an off-ramp’

Updated 3 months ago

Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace

Updated 4 months ago

Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace

Updated 4 months ago

Michael Clark murder defense seeks to link case to JonBenét investigation ‘mistakes’

Updated 4 months ago

In new legal filings, Michael Clark, now facing a second trial for a 1994 murder, seeks to link alleged Boulder police missteps in his case...

New charitable gaming board meets following Gazette series

Updated 4 months ago

The latest iteration of Colorado’s long-defunct advisory board for charitable gaming met Friday for the first time since legislators revived it more than 18 months...

6 key takeaways from 3-month investigation into Colorado’s charitable gaming world

Updated 5 months ago

A summary of the findings of senior investigative reporter David Migoya’s three-month probe into the inner workings of the state’s $110 million charitable gaming world:

Colorado charities pay bingo volunteers despite law prohibiting it

Updated 5 months ago

Colorado’s charitable gaming laws succinctly prohibit state nonprofits from paying or remunerating volunteers who work the bingo and raffle games they host. That doesn’t seem...