October 17, 2025: Flooding update, Boebert’s bad fundraising haul, ozone improvement, No Kings coming up
New fundraising disclosures for the candidates who want to represent you in Congress, and the big check Mike Bloomberg is writing in the governor’s race.
Colorado’s ‘Healthy School Meals for All’ is at a crossroads. Voters will decide where it goes
Advocates say the program has been successful at feeding more kids and reducing lunch line stigma. There’s not enough money to do everything it promised.
Sen. Hickenlooper: Health care stakes warrant shutdown tactics
Democrats have staked reopening the government on an extension of health care tax credits.
Buena Vista’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery comes alive for lantern tour
The Mt. Olivet Cemetery tour includes stories from the lives of prospectors, madams, and sheriffs that lived in Chaffee County.
Heavy rain, flooding close tourist trains through Southwestern Colorado
The record precipitation closed the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Colorado identifies another measles case, with a new one in out-of-state traveler to the southern part of the state
The state has seen a record number of cases this year of the virus once considered eliminated in the U.S.
Colorado Public Radio Podcast Wins Two National Signal Awards for Excellence in Local News
Purplish, a podcast about Colorado politics and government, has been named the best local news podcast in the 2025 Signal Awards.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg reshapes early race for Colorado governor
Bloomberg has poured half a million dollars into helping Sen. Michael Bennet defeat Attorney General Phil Weiser in the Democratic primary.
‘We can choose to take action’: Filmmaker Anayansi Prado on ‘Uvalde Mom’ and what Colorado can learn from the shooting
“Uvalde Mom” is screening at the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival at Colorado College this weekend.
Colorado Springs City Council kills proposal to charge solar customers more for peak hour usage
Many solar customers said they spent tens of thousands of dollars installing solar panels, and the change would renege on incentives from the past.
Colorado’s Front Range had a less smoggy summer thanks to cooler weather, less wildfire smoke
The air was cleaner, but probably not clean enough to get Metro Denver back into compliance with federal ozone standards.
Colorado Springs Police K9 set to be discharged from veterinary hospital after stabbing
The officer named Roam needed one leg amputated after an altercation with a suspect.
Damage estimates still being calculated following historic floods in southwestern Colorado
Durango, Pagosa Springs and Vallecito took the brunt of the high water.
Colorado’s congressional incumbents, Democratic challengers pull in strong fundraising numbers
The midterms are a year away, but the money races are already going strong, as each party eyes control of Congress.
Colorado joins new public health alliance in face of Trump administration’s remaking of federal health infrastructure
More than a dozen Democrat-led states found coalition to share public health data, best practices and more.
