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“She is such a puzzle”: Colorado teen’s months-long ordeal spotlights mysteries of long COVID
Ever since Lilly Downs contracted COVID-19 in November, she has lived with persisting symptoms -- quick heart rate, fatigue, mouth ulcers, brain fog and more 鈥� from the infection. She,...
Crisis Point: Teens increasingly turn to Safe2Tell for suicide, mental health emergencies. But Colorado doesn’t track what happens next.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young Coloradans. The state's Safe2Tell tip line, created to stop school violence, uses police to intervene in mental health crises. Does it...
Inside a Colorado hospital鈥檚 COVID-19 unit, a quiet fight to keep coronavirus patients breathing
On a COVID unit at The Medical Center of Aurora the gravity of the disease is ever present as patients require ventilators to breathe, a sign that even as Colorado鈥檚...
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ICE raids hit apartment buildings in Aurora and Denver; feds say they targeted Tren de Aragua gang
Agents from multiple federal agencies conducted immigration raids in Denver and Aurora on Wednesday morning, with early reports and video showing agents going door-to-door and throwing what appears to be...
Woodland Park school board passes resolution to recognize “only two sexes,” reject “gender ideology”
The district garnered national attention in recent years after a conservative majority on the school board hired a new superintendent and adopted a social studies standard that was created by...
Trump administration to investigate DPS for turning girls restroom into an all-gender bathroom
East High, the city鈥檚 largest high school, converted a girls restroom into a bathroom for all genders.
Trump’s now-blocked federal spending freeze sends Colorado officials scrambling, with billions at stake
A sudden freeze on federal spending by the Trump administration -- set to take effect Tuesday but put on hold by a federal judge -- sent Colorado officials scrambling as...
Parents group seeks injunction to stop school closures as its lawsuit against DPS proceeds
If approved by the judge overseeing the lawsuit, the injunction would allow students to keep attending the schools that DPS plans to shutter or reduce.
Colorado’s high school graduation rate continues to steadily improve
Still, the graduation rate for most Colorado students of color, multilingual learners, children with disabilities and other groups lagged behind the statewide rate.
Denver-area schools are training staff what to do if ICE agents show up at their doors
Colorado educators fear the Trump administration will revoke a 14-year-old federal policy that has prevented ICE officers from arresting people at schools.
Colorado’s public school enrollment continues to fall, but immigrant students are helping fill classrooms
DPS saw the number of children in classrooms jump to the highest level since 2019-20, thanks in large part to the more than 4,700 immigrant students who arrived last year.
DPS board members express frustration after John Youngquist accused them of violating open meetings law
"I鈥檓 deeply disappointed in the problematic comportment that I have seen from you this past year," said board member X贸chitl 鈥淪ochi鈥� Gayt谩n during the meeting.
Simmering dispute among DPS board involves pay issue, allegations of “unprofessional behavior”
Director John Youngquist levied his own allegations, accusing his colleagues of violating Colorado鈥檚 open-meeting law after he was excluded from an executive session in December.