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Colorado Arts Spotlight: Jazz for mental health, Denver Fashion Week, Indigenous arts leadership, a ‘Bruce Lee and Beyond’ film series and more

By Lauren Antonoff Hart

· May. 8, 2025

Colorado flower farmers are a hardy bunch. Mother’s Day is their early season

· May. 8, 2025

Three officers present during 2022 shooting death of Christian Glass have charges against them dropped

· May. 7, 2025

Government and Politics

101 bills debated by the Colorado legislature in 2025 that you need to know about

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun, Brian Eason, The Colorado Sun, Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC, and Chas Sisk

· May. 8, 2025

Colorado Catholics rejoice as American is named next pope

By Hayley Sanchez

A group of people in pews sit and listen as a priest in the far distance speaks at a lecturn.

A rushing river with trees near it and rocks runs off a mountain.

The snow in Colorado’s mountains melted too fast. It could mean worse wildfires this year

By Ishan Thakore

a fire mitigation worker clears trees and brush

New tool aims to improve how Colorado funds, plans and invests in wildfire mitigation

Macey Franklin AmeriCorps volunteer firefighter

‘Harmful and hurtful’: Trump administration cuts to AmeriCorps would impact Colorado students

A white LDS temple is shown on a sunny spring day. The building is made of white stone with a golden spire.

Life and Culture

Here’s what the new Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Colorado Springs will look like

Colorado Legislature Final Day 2025

Government and Politics

The 5 biggest themes of Colorado’s 2025 legislative session

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun, Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC, Brian Eason, The Colorado Sun, Bente Birkeland, and Chas Sisk

· May. 9, 2025

The U.S. Capitol

House Republicans divided over fate of Biden era clean energy tax breaks

· May. 9, 2025

Electra CEO Sandeep Nijhawan

A Boulder-based startup wants to put Colorado at the center of a greener steel industry

· May. 9, 2025

Union supporters rally

Government and Politics

Gov. Jared Polis plans to veto Labor Peace Act bill, which was a priority for Colorado unions

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

· May. 8, 2025

Education bric-a-brac in a preschool classroom

State appeals ruling that Christian preschool should get state funding despite conflicts with anti-discrimination laws

By Jenny Brundin

· May. 8, 2025

Lincoln Health Community Hospital

Seeking spending cuts, GOP lawmakers target a tax hospitals love to pay

By KFF Health News

· May. 8, 2025

Humans cause most of Colorado’s wildfires, but a lack of investigative resources means few are held responsible

By Ben Markus and Veronica Penney

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ERPO in 8 charts: What we learned from reading hundreds of ‘red flag’ cases in Colorado

By Andrew Kenney

The new park "cap" over I-70 in Elyria Swansea. Nov. 30, 2022.

Colorado built a park over I-70 to contain pollution. Is the air safe to breathe?

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‘There’s winners and losers’: Colorado is hoping to reform mental health, but a failed overhaul in 2014 shows how political connections maintain the status quo

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