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Report: Cancer-causing benzene spiked more than once at Bella Romero The...

A new analysis of state data sheds more light on the benzene spike at Greeley’s Bella Romero Academy, indicating the cancer-causing chemical linked to...

Some Colorado residents want their local governments to ban fracking. Here’s...

Editors note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2019. On Tuesday, at 11 a.m., environmental advocates are planning a news conference at...

Missing dresses for missing and murdered women The dresses each represent...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a comment from the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District. Dresses meant to bring awareness to missing and...

Clock ticking on ‘local control’ special session

  NEGOTIATIONS continue in Denver between parties hoping to strike a deal and pass a state law that would give local communities more regulatory control...

Colorado ballot initiative aims to give local governments say on fracking

"People are familiar with this issue, all around the state. They're doing their own research and talking about fracking and local control... It's in the news."

Fracking Protesters Follow Hickenlooper to Aspen

ASPEN-- This tony resort town, set high above the heavily plied natural-gas fields of the Colorado Front Range, was the unlikely scene on Saturday of the latest clash in the running battle in the state over the controversial natural-gas-extraction method known as fracking. More than 100 anti-fracking protesters gathered outside the Democratic Governors Association meeting held here, waving signs, shouting slogans and staging street-theater scenes in an attempt to draw the attention of Governor John Hickenlooper and the other "important state leaders and presidential hopefuls" in attendance.
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