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The Home Front: BB guns cause police problems, Springs gang unit gone, state poverty...

BB guns and air-soft rifles are causing problems for some Colorado police, according to The Greeley Tribune. Greeley police Sunday night used a Taser...

The Home Front: Diet soda back in schools, SWAT team hits wrong house, and...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn explained to The Durango Herald why he's blacklisting The Denver Post, while shrugging off national support and his...

The Home Front: Gas patch jobs, utility rate hikes, marijuana sales and Donald Trump

Stories about higher utility rates populate the front pages of newspapers from Longmont to Durango and Fort Collins— and all for different reasons. Meanwhile, marijuana sales...

The Home Front: Why all the pro-fracking ads, more rules for dogs, and the...

It's the battle of Battlement Mesa as some residents "are calling on Gov. John Hickenlooper to intervene after state regulators approved a second proposed Ursa Resources oil...

The Home Front: Fatal bus crash at DIA, landslide victims in the Springs, and...

Landslide victims in the Springs, a witty weapons headline, 9/11 remembrances and a fatal bus crash at DIA take up the front page real estate this...

The Home Front: A Colorado ‘moth-pocalypse,’ drone rules and robot wars

The city of Greeley, Colorado, has been hit by a "tiny moth-pocalypse," according to this morning's front page of The Greeley Tribune. “Oh my God, they’re...

The Home Front: West Nile virus, gridlock on the regents board, hemp seeds and...

Some meaty news on today's front pages throughout the state, from an embattled university conflict program to Colorado's mysterious West Nile virus stats. On...

The Home Front: GMO labeling, an indicted ex-sheriff and panhandling problems

Panhandling problems, an indicted ex-sheriff, fall arts previews, and GMO labeling all make the front pages of today's broadsheets throughout Colorado. The Greeley Tribune has...

DATA: Colorado Democrats keep snapping up voters before the election

  Colorado Democrats are now fewer than 3,000 voters away from overtaking registered Republicans among the state's active voters. Democrats still outnumber total registered Republican voters...

The Home Front: Pot law loopholes, farmers vs. pipelines, pesky bears and budgets

It's loopholes in local pot laws, eminent domain for gas pipelines, bear problems, budgets, and stolen bikes on the front pages across Colorado newspapers today. The...
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