- The twin outbreaks have grown to include 168 confirmed cases between the locations in Aurora and Colorado Springs.
- The Virginia-based privately run company uses technology like "video selfies" to weed out fake applications for various government services.
- Waitlists for help stretched to 40 days on average, but a new approach offers hope.
- Fraud has run rampant in unemployment systems across the U.S., with national and even international criminal groups using stolen identities to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from unemployment systems.
- Colorado's delegation reacted online, in real time, as rioters broke into the US capitol and disrupted the Electoral College certification.
- The upgrade may solve some of the frustrations that came with an old, glitchy system. But the transition came with some headaches.
- Boebert claims unspecified states made changes to their election laws that violated the U.S. Constitution.
- A federal pause on evictions runs out at the end of January, but extra state protections for renters seem likely to go away a lot sooner.
- A new CDOT program includes $20 million for Colfax Avenue, among 30 projects across the metro.
- More than 100 employees may have contracted the novel coronavirus at two In-N-Out locations this month — making the outbreaks the largest reported in Colorado restaurants. Sixty-nine employees of the chain’s store in Colorado Springs have tested positive or have “probable” cases of COVID-19 in an outbreak that was first reported on Dec. 6.
- Gov. Jared Polis and his administration have declined to prioritize homeless shelters and prisons for vaccines.
- A saga that began in 2009 with a silvery balloon floating into the blue skies of Colorado may have ended with two signatures from Gov. Jared Polis this week.
- A federal moratorium on evictions will end next month, which means unless Gov. Polis acts to install a state-level ban, the new rental assistance money in the stimulus package may not get to troubled tenants quickly enough to keep them in their homes.
- The state government has some breathing room, but an inequitable recovery raises long-term questions.
- Colorado struggled through the pandemic unemployment crisis with a computer system built in the '80s. But a long-delayed upgrade is on its way.
- Vaccinations for the first group of Coloradans will begin within weeks.
