Tag: Featured Stories
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Another translocated wolf dies in Colorado, bringing total to 12
Wildlife officials on Friday morning announced that another British Columbia wolf, a female with the tag 2506, died in southwest Colorado. Officials said necropsy will be performed by U.S. Fish & Wildlife. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife did not identify the wolf’s exact location, but southwestern Colorado is home to both the Ute Mountain Ute…
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Jeff Crank challenger Jessica Killin’s internal poll shows toss-up race in Colorado’s 5th CD
Democratic congressional candidate Jessica Killin is running neck-and-neck with Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank a year before the 2026 election in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, according to a new internal poll of likely voters released Wednesday by Killin’s campaign. The poll, conducted by Democratic firm Global Strategy Group and first reported by Colorado Politics, found…
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Democrats cheer as Colorado voters hand wins to ballot measures, candidates backed by party | ANALYSIS
It was a good night for Democrats in Colorado Tuesday, as voters passed statewide and local ballot questions endorsed by the party, while rejecting Republican candidates in key municipal and school district elections. While none of the choices in the state’s off-year election carried partisan labels, both major parties poured resources and attention into contests…
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Colorado joins 22-state lawsuit to restore SNAP benefits amid government shutdown
Colorado joined a lawsuit filed by states against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to attempt to force the restart of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Those benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1 due to the federal government shutdown. That could leave 600,000 Coloradans — 10% of the state population — without the…
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Former Colorado Libertarian chair Hannah Goodman joins Democratic Party
Less than a week after ending her second term as chair of the Colorado Libertarian Party, Hannah Goodman changed her voter registration to become a Democrat, the Holyoke resident announced on Monday. Goodman, whose tenure chairing the state’s largest minor political party featured an agreement with Colorado Republicans to help GOP candidates win close races,…
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Colorado pays to keep Rocky Mountain National Park visitor centers open
Colorado is picking up the tab to keep two visitor centers of the Rocky Mountain National Park, a key economic driver for the state, open as the federal shutdown entered its third week. The state will pay $3,200 per day to keep the Beaver Meadows and Kawuneeche visitor centers operating starting on Oct. 24. The…
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Financial challenges mount for 16 Colorado school districts, audit reveals
Sixteen school districts in Colorado, almost all of them rural, are showing signs of financial stress, according to an audit released on the fiscal health of the state’s 178 public school districts. Eighteen other districts, however, are moving off the list with improvements to their fiscal health in the 2023-24 fiscal year. The Ellicott School…
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Connect for Health Colorado has serious financial management problems, audit says
Worries that the quasi-governmental agency that operates Colorado’s official state-based health insurance marketplace was spending money for political purposes turned out to be unfounded, according to a new audit. But the state audit found that Connect for Health Colorado has serious problems with its financial management, including a lack of oversight on the use of…
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Democrats retreat in Vail raises intraparty eyebrows
A group of Democratic state legislators headed to Vail during the Oct. 4 weekend for an “opportunity caucus” retreat that also included lobbyists, raising a host of questions, including who paid for the getaway and whether the policymakers discussed the legislative business away from the public eye. The “opportunity” caucus rejected the latter insinuation, stating…
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A jail death in Denver raises questions about intake policies — and how a man with a violent history kept getting released early
On June 30, deputies from the Denver Sheriff Department responded to an overnight call for help in the agency’s Downtown Detention Center. They found a man — later identified as 34-year-old Vincent Chacon — unresponsive in his cell, where he was pronounced dead, the police said in a news release. Police investigators later said the…