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Reformers want Polis to commute the sentences of more inmates during...

Criminal justice reformers are calling on Gov. Jared Polis to commute the sentences of more inmates in Colorado's prisons in response to the COVID-19...

Colorado’s prison population is dropping, but not fast enough, advocates say...

Colorado's prison population has dropped to the lowest level since 2004, according to reports from the Colorado Department of Corrections.  As of April 30, the...

Greene: VA hospital celebrates and sends off its first COVID-patient “I...

Friends and family of the Rev. Terrance “Big T” Hughes’ gathered outside the Aurora VA hospital doorway Wednesday afternoon. It'd been many weeks since...

ICE moves hundreds of detainees in and out of the Aurora...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved 776 detainees into a privately-run detention center in Aurora in the approximate eight weeks since the first case...

Greene: Denver pastor and COVID victim to leave hospital after seven...

Big T is back.  I am over the moon to report that the Rev. Terrance Hughes, after about seven weeks on a ventilator with severe,...

Littwin: As country begins to reopen, Fauci asks how much death...

You can call the reopening of America’s businesses an experiment. I’ll call it a gamble, and we know what the stakes are. I’ll let Dr....

Coloradans still have questions about filing for COVID-19 unemployment. We have...

More than 358,000 Coloradans have filed for unemployment over the past six weeks, in an unprecedented wave that reflects the nationwide job-loss and economic...

Polis places moratorium on evictions through May Housing advocates say the...

Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order suspending evictions late Thursday night, joining most states in the U.S. to temporarily outlaw removing renters from...

East Colfax group launches fund for businesses that haven’t received emergency...

An advocacy group along a stretch of East Colfax in Denver launched a relief fund on Thursday for small businesses — many of which...

April Updates: COVID-19 in Colorado Regular updates from the month Coloradans...

These updates continue our coverage of a story that was originally published on March 5, when Colorado health officials announced the first two diagnosed...
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