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Sexual violence is down at American military academies, but many survivors still aren’t reporting assaults

Gate 1 at the Fort Carson military base south of Colorado Springs.

Colorado senators want answers after money for meals at Fort Carson never made it to plates

Gate 1 at the Fort Carson military base south of Colorado Springs.

More soldiers from Fort Carson head to the southern U.S. border

By Andrea Chalfin

A 10th Mountain Division trooper jumps

The Army’s 10th Mountain Division, which trained in Colorado and helped defeat the Nazis, is celebrated this week

A cadet walks on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy

Shakeup at USAFA Board of Visitors as President Trump aims to replace members

Tuskegee Airmen gather for 75th anniversary ceremony.

Air Force clarifies Tuskegee Airmen content will continue to be taught amid removal of DEI courses

By The Associated Press

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Colorado lawmakers of Israeli and Palestinian heritage greet ceasefire with fragile hope

By Bente Birkeland

Fire and rescue lowering into a silo to rescue a trapped teen

Online schematics of Colorado’s abandoned missile silos are drawing trespassers

APTOPIX Congress COVID Relief Bill

Government and Politics

Congress approves annual defense policy bill with provisions that both please and disappoint Colorado’s delegation

A cadet walks on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy

Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admission practices

Gate 1 at the Fort Carson military base south of Colorado Springs.

Lima beans and toast: Fort Carson working to combat bad food at soldier dining facilities

Colorado leaders applaud as Air Force says Schriever Space Base to serve as home of Space Delta 15

Absentee ballots

Of Colorado’s millions of votes, a few are coming from very far away

By Kiara DeMare

Colonel James Harvey, 101, sits with a baseball cap that identifies his Tuskegee team as winners of the first-ever Top Gun completion in 1949.

‘Be kind to others and have a sense of humor:’ Life lessons from a 101-year-old Tuskegee fighter pilot

By Andrea Dukakis

A man in military fatigues looking up into an airplane while performing maintenance.

Colorado in head-to-head fight with the U.S. Air Force over Air National Guard control

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