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Special legislative panel digs into huge spike in energy costs for utility customers across Colorado

Special legislative panel digs into huge spike in energy costs for utility customers across Colorado

A special Colorado legislative panel on Monday held its latest hearing to study the causes and effects of spiking energy costs for utility customers throughout the state, inviting experts to…

Colorado upgrades electric vehicle plan as sales topped 10% market share in 2022

Colorado upgrades electric vehicle plan as sales topped 10% market share in 2022

More than 1 in 10 new cars sold in Colorado in 2022 were electric vehicles, and state officials on Thursday laid out their plans to accelerate a “large-scale transition of…

Protect the West Act would pump $60 billion into western wildfire mitigation, watershed protection

Protect the West Act would pump $60 billion into western wildfire mitigation, watershed protection

A bill introduced in Congress this week by Colorado Democrats would allocate $60 billion in federal funding for efforts to protect vulnerable forests and watersheds and mitigate wildfire risk throughout…

Polis cool to climate targets in Democratic bill meant to speed Colorado’s clean energy transition

Polis cool to climate targets in Democratic bill meant to speed Colorado’s clean energy transition

For the third legislative session in a row, an effort by Democratic lawmakers to beef up Colorado’s approach to combating climate change is getting a cool reception from Gov. Jared…

Colorado Parks and Wildlife unveils wolf reintroduction plan, including Vail area

Colorado Parks and Wildlife unveils wolf reintroduction plan, including Vail area

Colorado could be less than a year away from the state’s first relocation of gray wolves to parts of the Western Slope, as required by a ballot initiative passed by…

O’Dea wants to bite the hand that feeds him by slashing government spending

O’Dea wants to bite the hand that feeds him by slashing government spending

When Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates hit the campaign trail on the Western Slope last month, their paths briefly crossed atop a dam on the Colorado River in the high country…

O’Dea says DeSantis, Abbott ‘right’ to use migrants as political tool by transporting them to blue states

O’Dea says DeSantis, Abbott ‘right’ to use migrants as political tool by transporting them to blue states

Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea said Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was “right” to transport about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to the island of Martha’s Vineyard this…

Boebert urges far-right Christians to ‘rise up’ in apocalyptic ‘last of the last days’

Boebert urges far-right Christians to ‘rise up’ in apocalyptic ‘last of the last days’

In a raucous speech at a Christian conference in Woodland Park on Friday, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert called for conservative churchgoers to put “God back at the center of our…

Statewide ballot measure asks voters to tap TABOR refunds to combat Colorado housing crisis

Statewide ballot measure asks voters to tap TABOR refunds to combat Colorado housing crisis

Colorado voters will decide this November whether to boost state spending on affordable-housing initiatives by tapping into funds that could otherwise be returned under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Initiative…

Bennet, O’Dea cross campaign paths, offer very different views on Colorado River water, climate crisis

Bennet, O’Dea cross campaign paths, offer very different views on Colorado River water, climate crisis

Along the winding rural highways and forested watersheds of northern Colorado, the paths of Colorado’s two U.S. Senate candidates intertwined on Tuesday at a series of events that put a…