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Colorado’s legislative session began Wednesday with a signal to Washington, D.C.: We’re watching.
On the Democratic side, Thornton Rep. Joe Salazar, who might consider a...
The Adams County Board of Commissioners has postponed a public fracking information session scheduled for Tuesday in order to meet privately with the county attorney.
The county...
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can continue deciding how much consumers get paid to reduce their energy use. It's been touted as a "tremendous win" for...
Colorado's General Assembly kicked off its 70th session in classic Colorado style -- so bipartisan it’s hard to say who’s walking onto the court with the upper hand.
Efforts in the past two weeks in the dead-heat U.S. Senate race have focused on getting voters to mail in ballots and now to drop them directly at polling centers. It's all about turn out now.
DENVER — Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Congressman Bob Beauprez joined a rally of more than 100 coal industry advocates and employees before the...
Republicans here generally seem to be banking on Gardner as a political type that has been missing in the ranks as late. The hope is that he can sell a brand that has increasingly skewed old, hardcore, inflexible and threatening.