- According to U.S. Department of Agriculture officials, the privatization is on hold while they consider their role in operating the centers.
- A group says massive environmental impacts would follow a bigger limestone quarry. The company is proposing to grow the operation to more than 400 acres.
- In Colorado, maternal mortality rates are low at around 35 women per year, but experts have trouble comparing data nationwide. A new law requires the state to review and collect data on deaths of mothers.
- Nationwide, the total number dropped by 1.7 million people since 2007.
- The adult suspect's next hearing was set for Sept. 24 through 26.
- The center educates and employs rural youth. Its director says 46 employees there will lose their federal jobs. She says they may reapply for them, but they would work for a private contractor.
- Denverites appear to have passed the “Let Denver Vote” Initiative that will let voters decide via a citywide vote if city officials can spend money — or staff time — to lure an Olympic Games to Colorado.
- Snowpack and a slow melt could combine for good water recreation in all parts of the state.
- Probably through July you might not have to get on a plane — or drive for dozens of hours — to get to sand, water and waves. Just head to Southern Colorado.
- High late May snowpack could mean flooding for southwestern Colorado.
- Polis hopes to get Colorado to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040. To that effect, he signed seven new bills into law intended to limit the state’s contributions to climate warming.
- It's still unclear whether the two Democratic presidential candidates from Colorado will quality for the first Democratic debate at the end of June. And it just got even harder for them to qualify for the third.
- Denver Health says Denver has higher rates of alcohol abuse than similar counties that include cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Austin.
- Representatives from the seven states that rely on Colorado River water met at the Hoover Dam to mark a long-negotiated agreement aimed at keeping reservoirs from drying up.
- An Uber driver convicted of a misdemeanor sex crime could have faced a felony charge, but since the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office decided not to request a rape exam, the charge was not pursued.
- He’s leading a host of attorneys general from around the U.S. in asking a federal court to allow such designations for people who identify as neither male nor female.
