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Carlos Illescas, award-winning Denver Post reporter, dies at 54

December 28, 2017 at 4:26 a.m.

Carlos Illescas, a longtime Denver Post reporter who covered the shootings at Columbine High School and an Aurora movie theater among thousands of other stories, died recently of unknown causes.

The Colorado State Capitol Building in ...

Colorado lawmakers approve using state money to keep health insurance program for kids running

December 21, 2017 at 7:10 p.m.

Congress on Thursday approved funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program through March, but state lawmakers, worried that the money won't arrive in time, gave the OK to using state...

How does the final GOP tax bill affect health care in Colorado?

December 20, 2017 at 6:00 a.m.

The Republican tax bill would eliminate the requirement that people buy health insurance -- saving more than 100,000 Coloradans from paying a fine but also raising the state's uninsured rate...

Marbell Castillo, who often takes her ...

Hickenlooper makes emergency plea for lawmakers to extend children’s health insurance program

December 20, 2017 at 8:02 a.m.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper asked state lawmakers on Monday to dip into state coffers to pay for an extra month of the Children's Health Plan Plus, which covers roughly 75,000...

Colorado’s largest treatment provider for drug and alcohol addiction is closing

January 3, 2018 at 12:35 p.m.

Arapahoe House, which is Colorado's largest provider of drug and alcohol abuse treatment, will close its doors on Jan. 2, after years of inadequate government funding, its CEO says.

This file photo taken on October 1, 2013 shows a woman looking at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site in Washington, DC.

Friday is deadline in Colorado to buy health insurance that starts Jan. 1

December 14, 2017 at 6:10 p.m.

While people in states using the federal health insurance exchange face a hard deadline Friday to buy health insurance, open enrollment on Colorado's exchange will remain open until Jan. 12,...

Gonorrhea infections are increasing in the Denver metro area and many are resistant to antibiotics

December 14, 2017 at 6:03 p.m.

Cases of gonorrhea in Colorado have doubled since 2012, and public health officials say regular screening is needed to prevent the spread of strains that are resistant to antibiotics.

Gov. John Hickenlooper鈥檚 state budget proposal for 2018-19 calls for retirees and current public employees to shoulder the crux of forthcoming changes to the Colorado Public Employees鈥� Retirement Association pension fund.

In letter to Congress, Hickenlooper and other governors say CHIP should be “the one thing we can all agree on”

December 12, 2017 at 4:01 p.m.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper -- in what has become something of a trademark move -- signed onto a letter to Congress by a bipartisan group of governors urging the renewal...

Denver Skyline reflected by Sloans Lake on October 17, 2017 photographed from Sheridan and 20th street.

Colorado is still the least-obese state in the country. But it might not be for much longer.

December 12, 2017 at 11:32 p.m.

Colorado -- long the title-holder as the least-obese state in the country -- is getting heavier and other states are slimming the gap to No. 1.

Teenagers smoke marijuana during a 4/20 celebration in Denver's Civic Center. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file)

Colorado teen marijuana use down post-legalization

December 11, 2017 at 4:58 p.m.

The latest results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health align with data collected by Colorado.

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