One in 23 Colorado workers left their jobs during September.

John Hinman, a pastry chef, spent a summer perfecting his recipes until he "started making pies as good as grandma's."

Data showed that fewer fires are solved in Colorado than neighboring states, so reporters then set out to try and learn why.

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 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.

The number of days with smoky skies has grown over the last decade, the data show, blanketing Colorado from the Eastern Plains to the Western Slope

The Census data confirms the population growth evidenced by a decade of increased traffic and home prices on the Front Range.