Investigation shows mental health centers fail to meet community need
A COLab investigation found that Colorado has among the highest rates of mental illness in the country, yet it has one of the lowest rates when it comes to access to care.
‘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
When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. Instead, mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of its contract.
Denver home prices are growing at a ridiculous rate
It’s all due to a gross imbalance of supply and demand.
With gas prices high, Colorado oil production is ramping up
The number of drill rigs opening new wells in Colorado jumped from eight in March 2021 to 14 at the end of this month.
US Attorney: Colorado violated the law by not providing adequate services for disabled residents in nursing homes
Investigators found that there was significant interest among nursing home residents to transfer back to their communities, but many were unaware of services available to do so.
Colorado moves one step closer to introducing more wildfire investigators to the state
More than 5,000 wildfires start each year in Colorado. The cause of most of the state’s large, human-started fires is unknown.
The cause of most Colorado wildfires is unknown. These legislators want more fire investigators to help change that
Most of Colorado’s counties, which are responsible for investigating wildfires, do not have a trained wildfire investigator on staff.
Boulder County firefighters lost crucial early minutes because they couldn’t find the start of the Marshall fire
Fire crews were quick to respond to the call, but then they weren’t able to find and attack the flames for 11 minutes. By then, it was too late.
Sports gambling takes off in Colorado, raising profits, taxes and concerns alike at casinos
October 2021 was the most active month yet in Colorado’s fledgling sports betting market.
Humans start most wildfires in Colorado. Why’s it so easy to get away with?
Some of the biggest wildfires in Colorado have cost lives and caused millions of dollars in damage. But without knowing how they started exactly, Coloradans can’t change policies to try to prevent new ones. And no one gets held accountable.
Polis signals Colorado will improve the resources given to wildfire investigations
A CPR News investigation found that state, local and federal authorities in Colorado could pinpoint the ignition source for fewer than half of the human-started wildfires in the state since 2000.
How Aurora plans to address racist policing, negative public interactions in agreement with Colorado AG
The city of Aurora and the state Attorney General have agreed on a framework for reforms of the police and fire departments.
To slow hospitalizations, Polis promotes monoclonal antibodies. But doctors say the treatment is hard to find
The state is working to expand monoclonal antibody treatment by eliminating the need for a doctor’s referral and adding five new monoclonal treatment “buses” by mid-December.
This is how we analyzed Colorado wildfire data
Data showed that fewer fires are solved in Colorado than neighboring states, so reporters then set out to try and learn why.
Humans cause most of Colorado’s wildfires, but a lack of investigative resources means few are held responsible
A CPR News investigation found that Colorado has the worst rate of any state in the West for finding the origins of human-caused wildfires.
Colorado’s biggest wildfires are mostly human-caused — and unsolved
Colorado wildfire investigators found the exact origins of just 43 percent of human-caused fires from 2000 to 2018 — the worst rate of any state in the West. As a result, policy makers are left without key data that could explain what people who cause fires are doing wrong.
