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New sheriff, new town: Jared Polis takes reins from Hickenlooper in a vastly different...

Colorado had never seen an Inauguration Day like it did on Tuesday. It had never seen a governor-elect descend the Capitol steps in blue sneakers,...

Amid a growing opioid epidemic, lawmakers hope to end drug-addiction withdrawal in county jails...

On a warm spring day in 2015, Sarah Blair was stranded at a Safeway in Thornton with no car and a dead cell phone....
Colorado residents unable to prove they are in the U.S. lawfully have been able to apply for special driver's licenses for almost five years. Appointments, already backfilled for months, may become harder to get this year. (Image of driver's license courtesy of Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles)

Colorado’s backlogged immigrant driver’s license program faces further cuts. Two Republican lawmakers want to...

In November, a Colorado Springs woman positioned herself at her computer, pulled up the state Division of Motor Vehicles site and waited. The first...
Sen. Cory Gardner speaks to a Chamber of Commerce group at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix in May 2018. (Photo by Greg Skidmore, via Flickr:Creative Commons)

Littwin: Cory Gardner picks the exact right time to go rogue on Trump’s shutdown

Give Cory Gardner credit. Not only did he go rogue — shocking in its own right — he went rogue at just the right...
Photo by Amanda Slater, Creative Commons, Flickr

Lawmakers eye drug sentencing reforms to ease projected prison population growth People with controlled...

Editors note: House Democrats introduced a bill to change the penalties for drug possession on March 22. The department that oversees Colorado’s prisons is again asking the...

2018 was bloodbaths and ‘blooms’: The year in Colorado’s media world Your weekly roundup...

For this week's column, we take a look back at 2018 and all that happened in our little corner of the journalism world. OK,...

Media: Denver TV journalists show our healthcare system is messed up — on TV...

The spotlight is shining on a trio of journalists for KUSA 9News, the Denver NBC affiliate, for the way they've been covering medical bills...

Littwin: If Trump can survive the chaos — and here’s betting he can —...

I have no idea how it will end — only that it will end badly. I don’t mean the shutdown. History gives a pretty good...
Edwards, a small town in Eagle County, Colorado.

A silent sorrow: How a 12-year-old’s death launched a suicide-prevention campaign in Eagle County...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series examining suicide in rural Colorado.  EDWARDS, Colo. — Walking through the halls of Battle Mountain...

City audit finds several “serious” problems with Denver affordable housing program

Denver’s affordable housing program has “multiple, significant problems,” the city auditor determined in a report released today. The program, with its 1,200 units throughout the...
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