- The state's largest university has confirmed over 760 cases of coronavirus since the semester began.
- The U.S. Postal Service said it will destroy any election mailers that have not been delivered to Colorado households.
- 76 percent of cases in Boulder County have been traced back to university students.
- Secretary of State Jena Griswold successfully sued the U.S. Postal Service over an inaccurate election mailer. Now, she wants federal officials to "set the record straight."
- "Each month that passes where we shatter another record like that, just further confirms that we are experiencing the climate change that we've been warned about," said assistant state climatologist Becky Bolinger.
- “The next few days will be critical to our ability to maintain our current operating status,” Associate Vice Chancellor for Integrity Safety and Compliance Dan Jones wrote in a letter to students and staff.
- According to the complaint, students operate on live pigs in two different workshops, after which they kept alive for up to eight weeks before they are put down.
- The Pine Gulch Fire has been burning since July 31, after lightning struck brush in open space north of Grand Junction.
- Scientists say virus particles can appear in stool samples days before people show symptoms, which can help more accurately track case numbers.
- Smoke from the fire has crept from the Western Slope into the Front Range, prompting officials to issue an air quality advisory.
- Law students previously called on state officials to cancel the bar exam, worried that it could act as a catalyst for a COVID-19 outbreak.
- Indigenous activists and educators say the use of Native American imagery in school athletics brings up harmful intergenerational trauma for students.
- The Colorado Department of Agriculture warns the seeds, allegedly sent from China, could be invasive species.
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reporting a massive boom in fishing license sales in the first half of this year.
- The National Environmental Policy Act plays a key part in holding large infrastructure projects accountable to local communities and environmental policies.
