Nick Coltrain covers state politics for the Denver Post. He joined the news organization in 2022 after covering the Iowa caucus and COVID-19 for the Des Moines Register and all things for the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
About a block of Champa Street in downtown Denver is closed as emergency services work to clear a collapsed wall of the former dive bar Carioca Cafe, commonly known as...
An inmate at the downtown Denver jail died early Monday and police have arrested a fellow inmate on suspicion of homicide, according to a news release.
A new, White House-approved portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol after Trump complained an earlier image was "distorted."
Colorado will use $3 million from the state's opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Tuesday.
A fundraiser organized to protest Colorado's 568-day backlog for processing sexual assault forensic exams resulted in a $6,000 award to the state this week to urge faster action.
Colorado’s cap on budget growth and expected costs for Medicaid and more leaves budget-writing lawmakers nearly $700 million in the hole for the budget year that begins July 1, 2026.
Colorado has lost nearly $76 million in federal funding and has another $56 million at risk, according to a new public dashboard launched by Gov. Jared Polis' office on Tuesday.