In total, the Division of Housing sent more than $50 million in relief payments to 1,600 landlords through the POP program, which ended in June…
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CDHS Receives $1 Million Grant for Child Support Services
“The two-gen approach encourages CDHS programs to serve children and their caregivers together, to harness the family’s full potential…”
States and Tribes Contemplate the Colorado River in Serious Decline
“These decisions have significant psychological, sociological and economic impacts to the communities,” she said…
Hickenlooper, Bennet Join Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Military Suicide
The bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to immediately address military suicide rates by evaluating the effectiveness of their suicide prevention efforts…
VIDEO: What To Do If You Encounter a Mountain Lion
Southwest Colorado is prime mountain lion habitat, as indicated by 107 mountain lion sightings already this year across the region…
National Suicide Prevention Phone Number to Launch Next Year, But 10-Digit Dialing Required Now
Coloradans should continue to call Colorado Crisis Services as new dialing procedures take effect…
Camping Crunch Comes to Colorado
Compared to other regions of the country, the Western United States saw the biggest increase in reservable camping activity, although the trend of increasingly full campgrounds was consistent…
ESSAY: Learning a New Language is Exhausting
They had not yet learned to speak English, making it difficult to learn much in any of their classes…
Colorado Supreme Court Denies Tina Peters’ Appeal Regarding Mesa County Elections
Peters has been under scrutiny since she allowed an unauthorized person to attend Mesa County’s “trusted build” software update…
Sweetwater Lake to Become Our Newest Colorado State Park
“This is the first of its kind partnership in Colorado to create a state park on U.S. Forest Service land, and we look forward to working with our partners and Coloradans…”
LETTER: The True Purpose of Zoning and Land Use Codes
Do our land use codes and building codes really protect anyone… other than real estate agents, the tax man, and the wealthy folks who are offended by looking at the poor from their deck?…
Bremer, Aadland Take Early Fundraising Lead in Crowded GOP Senate Field
Eli Bremer, a former Olympic pentathlete and Air Force Reserves officer from Colorado Springs, led the field with $253,837 raised in the third quarter…
Your Questions About Colorado’s New Early Childhood Department Answered
“We’ve been moving from fire to fire to fire, and all of these fires have a huge impact in the field,” she said. “Time is money…”
Colorado’s ‘Free Application Days’ End Tomorrow
Colorado Free Application Days began yesterday, October 19 and continue through tomorrow, Thursday, October 21…
VIDEO: Colorado Business Offers ‘Water Cremation,’ a Green Alternative
“It’s really a western culture thing, this death denial,” says Emily Nelson. “Where we just don’t really think about it or talk about it…”
Changes in Work Schedule at This Year’s Habitat House
We need local volunteers! We will mostly be working on painting and miscellaneous indoor items…
Governor Polis Calls in National Guard to Support Colorado Election Cybersecurity
The National Guard members may participate in “training activities and assist with election cybersecurity defense efforts”…
OPINION: Take the ‘LEAP’ Forward, for Our Children
By Rudy Gonzales Latino children continue to suffer the academic brunt of this ongoing pandemic. As a former K-12 Educator, I am particularly dismayed at the lack of resources and support for BIPOC students across Colorado. This pandemic has laid bare the stark educational inequities and disparities between students of color and their white counterparts. READ MORE
Million Dollar Lotteries Failed to Encourage Vaccines, Says New Study
“So this is, across all the different states, tens of millions of dollars that we could have been spending on potentially more effective policies”…