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As affordable housing disappears, states like Colorado scramble to shore up the losses
While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could be yanked out from under them in the next five...
Families whose loved ones were left rotting in Colorado funeral home owed $950 million, judge rules
The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victims’ relatives...
Vice President Kamala Harris to address U.S. Air Force Academy graduates in Colorado
Vice President Kamala Harris will speak in Falcon Stadium, which can host upwards of 46,000 people, during an election year, as details of a debate between Harris and Donald Trump’s...
Colorado-based abortion fund sees rising demand. Many are from Texas, where procedure is restricted.
The U.S. Supreme Court¶¶Ňőap decision left a patchwork of state bans, restrictions and protections across the country. In response, a national makeshift network of individuals and organizations help those seeking...
Fake ashes and rotting bodies prompt Colorado lawmakers to pass funeral home regulations
Colorado lawmakers passed a sweeping bill to overhaul funeral home oversight after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies.
Reporter’s expulsion from Colorado Republican Party state assembly causes uproar
Journalists and elected officials, including the former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, came to the defense of Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish.
More cremated remains found at funeral home owner’s Denver house, prosecutors say
The owner of a Jefferson County funeral home who is accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year, along with stashing over...
Rotting bodies, fake ashes and sold body parts push Colorado to patch lax funeral home rules
After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state’s threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent...
Nearly 200 abused corpses were found at a Colorado funeral home. Why did it take authorities years to act?
The newly unsealed arrest affidavits for Jon and Carie Hallford raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to continue for so long. Colorado has some of the...
A record number of Americans can’t afford their rent. Lawmakers are scrambling to help
Single mom Caitlyn Colbert watched as rent for her two-bedroom apartment doubled, then tripled and then quadrupled over a decade in Denver — from $750 to $3,374 last year.