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Trump: Business and Employment Impact

Colorado joins 11 states to sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

By The Associated Press

A bottle of the MMR vaccine photographed in Lubbock, Texas, where a measles outbreak has sickened dozens.

Fourth measles case confirmed in Colorado in 2025, an adult in Denver

A school bus

Three Highlands Ranch elementary schools to close in 2026

By Alison Borden

Governor Polis speaking into a mic

Gov. Polis’ plan to accelerate Colorado’s clean energy transition won’t reach the legislature this year

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At Tina Peters hearing, federal attorney refuses to disclose reason for DOJ’s attempted intervention

By The Associated Press

In the foreground, three baskets on top of a brown bookshelf. In the background blurred slightly is a classroom with desks, chairs, and a woman standing near open windows with light coming in.

In tough budget year, raises for Colorado child care workers win continued support from lawmakers

Two men stand in a brightly lit hallway.

Rep. Crow warns of potential brain drain of health providers and catastrophic impacts on Coloradans’ care

heavy equipment and workers install a pipeline

Progress on a 70-year-old promise to pipe clean drinking water to southeastern Colorado

By Shanna Lewis

A large Olympic-sized swimming pool at Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University has proven geothermal energy can largely replace fossil fuels in its buildings. Now the world is taking notice

By Ishan Thakore

Ju'Riese Colón testifies

US Center for SafeSport parts ways with CEO Ju’Riese Colón

By The Associated Press

The shattered windshield of Alexa Bartell's car

Defense calls expert witness in trial for final defendant in Colorado rock-throwing death

Megan Hess stands in behind a sign saying Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in front of a funeral home.

Sunset Mesa Funeral Home owners, convicted for selling body parts, get same sentences in resentencing

The Aurora GEO ICE detention facility

Judge orders feds not to remove Venezuelan men from Colorado

By Allison Sherry

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Government and Politics

Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters

By The Associated Press

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Why CPR’s climate team reported a series of stories about geothermal energy

By Sam Brasch and Ishan Thakore

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