Mark K. Matthews

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Walker Stapleton discovered fraud helped him qualify for governor’s race. So now he’s taking a new path to make 2018 ballot.

April 10, 2018 at 11:48 p.m.

Walker Stapleton, the leading Republican candidate for governor in Colorado, acknowledged Tuesday that his campaign submitted fraudulent petitions to qualify for the 2018 ballot.

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John Hickenlooper talks to Rolling Stone about marijuana, the 2020 presidential race and the future of The Denver Post

April 9, 2018 at 2:03 p.m.

Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke last week to Rolling Stone as part of a four-day, cross-country tour and the two-term Democrat used the conversation to defend Colorado鈥檚 decision to legalize marijuana...

A filler machine at the Coors brewery in Golden

“It’s like a tax on every can of beer.” How would a trade war with China impact Coloradans?

April 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.

The growing risk of a U.S.-China trade war has rattled Colorado鈥檚 business community, which fears that new tariffs threatened by both sides would impact a broad range of products and...

Gov. John Hickenlooper shakes hands after delivering his final the State of the State address at the Capitol.

Hickenlooper discusses marijuana, White House, partisan politics at Georgetown

April 5, 2018 at 8:44 p.m.

Speaking Thursday to a small group of students at Georgetown University, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Democrats and Republicans should look to the soda industry as a way to improve...

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks to the media after attending a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators on Jan. 22 at the U.S. Capitol.

Cory Gardner urges Trump to use a new NAFTA deal to make it harder to add federal regulations

April 3, 2018 at 3:23 p.m.

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado is pressing President Donald Trump to use NAFTA negotiations to transform federal rulemaking in a way that could thwart future environmental protections and other...

Five things Colorado should know about Congress’ $1.3 trillion spending package

March 23, 2018 at 11:51 a.m.

Congress this week passed a massive $1.3 trillion plan to fund the federal government through Sept. 30 and tucked into that 2,232-page measure -- which President Donald Trump must sign...

Representative Doug Lamborn (R - CO) ...

Colorado鈥檚 NREL 鈥� once threatened by draconian cuts from Trump 鈥� is spared in proposed federal budget

March 22, 2018 at 2:16 p.m.

Once faced with devastating cuts, a research facility in Colorado now looks as if it will emerge unscathed in the federal government抖阴ap next budget. Included in Congress鈥� $1.3 trillion spending...

Marijuana nuggets and cash sales (Thinkstock / Getty Images)

Colorado lawmakers fall short in effort to shield recreational marijuana from federal enforcement

March 23, 2018 at 12:44 a.m.

A $1.3 trillion plan to fund the federal government through the end of September won鈥檛 include protections for the recreational marijuana industry -- a blow to Colorado lawmakers who tried...

A former employee of a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, says it used algorithms that "took fake news to the next level" using data inappropriately obtained from Facebook.

Facebook data from Cambridge Analytica helped Republicans win key seats in Colorado. And it cost them big bucks.

April 11, 2018 at 10:43 a.m.

Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to create psychographic profiles that allowed Republican operatives to target specific Colorado voters in battleground state Senate districts in 2014.

Colorado governor’s race tightens as Democrat Noel Ginsburg bows out

March 20, 2018 at 7:19 p.m.

Democrat Noel Ginsburg said Tuesday that he鈥檚 ending his bid for governor because he doesn鈥檛 have the campaign cash to keep up with the other candidates.

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