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Guest Post: GEO and ICE could be building Colorado’s most dangerous COVID-19 reservoir
As of Monday afternoon, March 16, Colorado had 160 cases of COVID-19 and experienced its first related death three days earlier. The state’s testing...
What state health officials currently know – and don’t know – about COVID-19 in...
Scott Bookman, the state public health incident commander for the coronavirus outbreak, spoke with reporters Monday afternoon in a press conference that left more...
Economic ripple effects of COVID-19 could deal an $800 million blow to Colorado’s budget...
The speedy spread of COVID-19 has slowed Colorado's economy, state economists say.
In December, Colorado was projected to collect an extra $832.5 million in revenue...
MAP: Here’s where children can get meals while Colorado schools are closed due to...
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On the heels of widespread school closures announced Thursday and Friday, Colorado districts have rolled out plans to keep feeding the...
Colorado’s elected officials grapple with how to keep public meetings open amid pandemic Any...
As the COVID-19 pandemic forces everybody to consider limiting their exposure to other people, local elected officials are starting to think about how they...
Colorado lawmakers recess amid COVID-19 outbreak Some lawmakers are wondering if they'll come back....
Lawmakers cleaned out their desks and headed home Saturday afternoon after an unprecedented vote to recess Colorado’s legislature in an effort to protect public...
U.S. House passes coronavirus response bill; Buck lone Colorado rep to vote no The...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House early Saturday morning approved an emergency stimulus package to combat the coronavirus pandemic after President Donald Trump signaled his...
Denver, other Colorado districts closing all schools to slow spread of coronavirus
More than two dozen Colorado school districts that collectively serve more than two-thirds of the state’s students announced Thursday that they would close for...
Colorado public defenders seek to release people from jail before COVID-19 outbreak Three-quarters of...
Colorado's public defenders are asking judges across the state to release jail inmates out of concern they could be hardest hit by COVID-19, the...
Colorado attorneys argue jury selection amid pandemic putting people at ‘needless and severe risk’...
Lawyers for a Colorado death penalty defendant say the court is subjecting scores of prospective jurors “to needless and severe risk” of contracting the...