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The March 5 news conference announcing Colorado’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was over.
The governor and the director of the Colorado Department of Public...
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...
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...
These updates continue our coverage of a story that was originally published on March 5, when Colorado health officials announced the first two diagnosed...
On Monday, Gov. Jared Polis plans to begin lifting social distancing restrictions, including his stay-at-home order, perhaps his most restrictive public health order aimed...