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The Sterling Correctional Facility on the outskirts of Sterling in early August 2018. It’s the largest prison in the Colorado Department of Corrections system, and is among state prisons that are understaffed and overcrowded.

Colorado’s prisons and jails are overflowing. What’s being done?

By Kyle McKinnon

The Vail Valley

Government and Politics

A group of Democratic state lawmakers gathered with lobbyists at a Vail retreat. Who paid the tab?

By Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun and Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

Government and Politics

Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. The organization serves more than 10,000 Coloradans on Medicaid each year, who now must rely on state funding for care.

Government and Politics

Colorado covers Planned Parenthood after GOP cuts. But for how long?

By Kyle McKinnon

Government and Politics

The Colorado legislature just tackled two budget crises. Another is on the horizon.

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

High school students from across Denver held a rally at the State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.

Students rally at the Colorado Capitol after Evergreen High shooting

By Kyle McKinnon

Migrants Child Supervision

Mother and 7-year-old son from Salida return to Colorado after nearly a month in ICE detention in Texas

By Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun

Former president of the Colorado Senate launches bid to become next state treasurer

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

a woman and child smiling at the camera

What happens when ICE takes away a Colorado family? A teammate disappears. A colleague misses work. Neighbors are gone

By Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun

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Liberal groups want to change Colorado’s income tax structure. Can they get their proposal before voters?

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

David Miller packs components to ship as Dakota Mossburg assembles a bike at Borealis

Government and Politics

The special session change to Colorado’s tax code that will most affect small businesses

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun and Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun

A 10-round magazine from an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle at Bristlecone Shooting, Training and Retail Center in Lakewood. Senate Bill 25-003 will make it illegal in Colorado to buy a wide range of guns without completing hours of safety training and getting a permit.

Federal lawsuit challenges Colorado’s sweeping semiautomatic gun restrictions

By Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC

Inside the Colorado Senate chamber, where measures to safeguard SNAP benefits and Planned Parenthood care both originated.

Colorado Democrats move to protect SNAP benefits and Planned Parenthood care

By Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC and 1A Across America

Hilary Glasgow, executive director of Colorado WINS, the state employees union, attends a pro-labor rally on the west steps of the Colorado Capitol on March 19, 2025.

Colorado’s overstretched state employees brace for further strain from hiring freeze

By Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC

Colorado Capitol in Denver

Taxes, AI and health care: Everything you need to know about Colorado’s special legislative session

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

A wolf sprinting through a field towards the tree line

Western Slope lawmakers want to pause wolf reintroduction, redirect funding amid Colorado’s $1 billion budget hole

By Tracy Ross and Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sifts through a copy

Government and Politics

When the state budget boomed, Colorado cut taxes. Now it’s paying the price.

By Brian Eason, The Colorado Sun

multiple houses in a neighborhood

In Fort Collins, it can be tough to afford rent. Colorado’s corporate landlords could be to blame

By Lucas Brady Woods, KUNC

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