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Nearly $2 million in CDOT’s Safe Routes to Schools funds will improve walkability in Cañon City and La Veta

A group of people are gathered in a room, with one woman hugging another woman. The woman hugging the woman is wearing a pink shirt. The room has a beige wall and a wooden floor.

More than 1,000 people attend vigil for Boulder attack on ‘a walk just like all our others, until it wasn’t’

By Tony Gorman and Alejandro A. Alonso Galva

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Nationwide procession to honor Eagle County paramedic Thursday

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Economic long view mostly cloudy with spots of uncertainty

By Sarah Mulholland

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Federal judge issues order stopping the deportation of family of man charged in Boulder firebombing

By The Associated Press

A large crowd of people stand on a brick sidewalk. Some hold the Israeli flag.

Hundreds gather in Boulder after attack to denounce antisemitism

By Alex Murphy, KUNC and Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC

Electric power lines and towers in North Denver

Utilities warn Republican budget bill would increase energy costs for Colorado households

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Government and Politics

What Colorado lawmakers think about the White House spending cuts sent to Congress

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State Treasurer Dave Young enters Democratic race for Congressional District 8

By Caitlyn Kim and Bente Birkeland

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Study offering free well testing for homeowners in Otero, Bent, Prowers and Kiowa counties for certain contaminants

By Shanna Lewis

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus,

More Coloradans who didn’t finish college are returning for credential

By Jenny Brundin

Gov. Jared Polis is seated at a table wearing a dark grey suit and blue shirt. He is looking up at Rep. Jenny Willford, second from right, who is wearing a dark jacket and black and white patterned dress. Sen. Mike Weissman stands behind Polis wearing a light grey jacket. Other people stand around them wearing dark clothes and they are all against a dark blue backdrop.

Gov. Polis signs law to reduce Colorado’s rape kit backlog

By Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC

The shattered windshield of Alexa Bartell's car

Third defendant in Jefferson County rock-throwing death sentenced to life in prison without parole

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Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting

By NPR

Trump department investigating Jeffco policy on overnight trip assignments for transgender students

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