Transgender and nonbinary people would receive more explicit protections in Colorado's anti-bias and harassment law if a newly introduced bill becomes law.
Low-income Coloradans with mental illnesses are poised to receive longer hospital stays after state legislators set aside money to expand a decades-old Medicaid rule.
Denver Parks and Recreation now has 16 city dog parks, up from just eight in 2014. Several are located downtown, but the options dwindle in some of the city's more densely populated neighborhoods east and southeast of central Denver.
Mexico’s first lady, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, also sounded the alarm over Thursday’s auction, writing in Spanish in a post on X that the pieces were “illegally stolen from our territory.”
A canine respiratory disease outbreak that sickened Colorado dogs this fall is motivating state lawmakers to find a legislative fix, but some pet care facilities say the proposed bill needs a lot more clarification to work.
Calling Donald Trump an “insurrectionist” on television does not constitute misconduct, as the complaint filed earlier this month by the Colorado Republican Party alleges.
Republicans in Colorado's sprawling 4th Congressional District chose former Parker mayor Greg Lopez to appear on the June 25 special election ballot to finish Rep. Ken Buck's term.
Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that. It all depends on factors that are still…
The largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard is arriving by barge so crews can begin removing the wreckage from the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says the crane can lift up to 1,000 tons. It will be used to clear…
By The Associated Press Hours before gunmen last week carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades in Russia, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ…
A decision restricting access to mifepristone could turn the course of the election. Public opinion polls hover around 70% of Americans who support the pill remaining legal and available.
House Republicans have invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer, chair of…
Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after a shooting at one of Denver's hotel shelters, marking the shelter's third person shot in less than two weeks.
The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump.
The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report. Forty states reported an increase in TB, and rates were up among all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and…
The owner of an Aurora drug screening business was arrested earlier this month after three women reported being sexually assaulted while providing urine samples, police announced Thursday.
Former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried faces the potential of decades in prison when he is sentenced Thursday for his role in the 2022 collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for trading digital currency. Bankman…
Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death -- as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An…
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern…
Colorado Springs police officers are searching for a missing Indigenous teenager last seen Sunday who could be experiencing mental health problems, officials announced Wednesday night.
The bill was amended to only ban firearms at Colorado schools, from preschool to college, as well as polling places, the state legislature and local government buildings, though local governments could opt out.
Colorado lawmakers have scaled back their reform plan for the Regional Transportation District, but they're still aiming to significantly alter the size and composition of its governing board.
Eastman, who was previously a visiting scholar of conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado Boulder, faced 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then…
A 27-year-old Denver man was found guilty of five counts of vehicular homicide on Wednesday in a 2022 Weld County crash that killed a Wyoming family of five.
A Denver jail deputy was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault related to domestic violence, Denver Sheriff Department officials said Wednesday.