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Comedian Josh Blue will never completely figure out stand-up. And that’s how he likes it

· Dec. 6, 2024

Venue Theatre’s ‘Miracle in Miami’ combines a young cast with Santa in a mid-life crisis for an unusual holiday offering

· Dec. 6, 2024

State House District 16 race in Colorado Springs officially decided by three votes after recount

By Bente Birkeland

· Dec. 5, 2024

Life and Culture

Festival of Lights returns to downtown Colorado Springs this weekend

· Dec. 6, 2024

‘Keep studying, a pencil weighs less than a shovel’: Stories of Colorado’s farmworker children

By Jenny Brundin

A student hugs a counselor and cries with her cell phone in her hand.

A close-up of a pheasant standing in green grass. The game bird is various shades of brown with some light redish feathers around its neck and black tail feathers. It is about the size of a chicken.

You can raise chickens in your backyard in parts of Colorado, but what about pheasants?

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Life and Culture

NOCO Holiday Light Trail strings together seasonal attractions throughout the region

By Eden Lane and Kiara DeMare

Life and Culture

‘Talk Less, Think More,’ advises 104-year-old classical and jazz great

By Andrea Dukakis

Denver voted for high-quality mental and addiction care, but millions have gone to unlicensed providers with limited transparency

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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