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In the annual Colorado budget tug-of-war, lawmakers are finding Gov. Polis a heavyweight Polis...

Gov. Jared Polis stood before cameras and a packed House chamber last week to deliver his State of the State address. He began by...

U.S. House votes to crack down on toxic chemicals; Trump threatens veto Colorado’s delegation...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Friday to pass a comprehensive legislative package that would crack down on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class...

Gov. Polis puts health care, tax cuts at top of priority list in 2020...

Gov. Jared Polis delivered his State of the State address on Thursday, laying out priorities for the 2020 session that include cutting the costs...

A debate over ‘accessory dwelling units’ in Colorado Springs highlights affordable housing tensions Known...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Del Huff has lived here in Colorado’s second-largest city for nearly a quarter of a century. He and his wife own...

The 2020 battle over oil and gas setbacks just started Colorado Rising has proposed...

On Tuesday morning, Laurie Anderson, a 46-year-old from Broomfield, watched a white tanker truck and another carrying sand for hydraulic fracturing travel past a...

Here are five hot spots of the 2020 legislative session Businesses are lining up...

A political advertisement, paid for by a Washington, D.C.-based group made up of mostly drugmakers, insurance companies and private hospitals, aired last month on...
Former GOP Congressman Mark Kennedy speaks at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on May 2, 2019, the day the board of regents named him as the system's new president. The announcement that Kennedy was the sole finalist for the $850,000-a-year job was met with unprecedented protest and concern that politics, not merit drove the process. (Photo by Susan Greene)

CU regents passed over more experienced and prominent applicants when picking Kennedy as president...

The University of Colorado’s elected board of regents passed over applicants with more experience running universities and more distinguished careers when it hired conservative former...

The Indy stories of 2019 that stayed with us long after the reporting ended

Metrics tell us a version of the story of our year at The Colorado Independent. They tell us what three stories had the most...

MEDIA: A rebellion at The Denver Post ‘instigated’ an upcoming film about a national...

Last spring's Denver Post editorial page revolt against its hedge-fund owner, which garnered national headlines and became known in media circles as the Denver Rebellion,...

Colorado begins new phase of reining in emissions from oil and gas The Air...

State air quality officials on Thursday adopted new oil and gas regulations that will require companies to more frequently inspect equipment for planet-warming and...
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