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This Colorado legislation would remove a state-level ban on rent control
Nearly half of Colorado's House Democrats have signed on to a bill that would allow local governments to enact rent control, repealing a decades-old prohibition and setting up a potential...
Colorado teens would need more training before getting driver’s license under proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths
As new data show Colorado traffic deaths hit a 41-year high in 2022, lawmakers are considering a bill that would require teenagers to take a 30-hour driver's education course and...
Has Colorado鈥檚 housing problem outgrown local control? A statewide plan takes shape.
A first-in-decades effort to restructure Colorado's land-use landscape has brought together a broad coalition of housing, environmental, transportation and business groups.
Lawmakers seek less combative debate in renewed effort to curb police from lying to kids in interrogations
New bill wouldn't stop police from lying to kids but would set high bar for use in court
Tired of your work schedule being posted last-minute? This bill would fine big employers for late, unstable scheduling.
Abby Vestecka worked at a Safeway in Denver for 18 months, stocking shelves, covering the cosmetics and dairy departments, and filling morning and night shifts that sometimes came in rapid...
Read Gov. Jared Polis’s 2023 State of the State speech
Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. Jared Polis's office. Note that he may make real-time changes to some of the exact language.
Gov. Jared Polis emphasizes housing action as he lays out vision for Colorado
Gov. Jared Polis will deliver the first State of the State address of his second term Tuesday morning as Colorado legislators begin to tackle a battery of issues.
Jared Polis begins second term as governor: “Coloradans are counting on all of us”
Gov. Jared Polis will swear in for his second term Tuesday morning.
Colorado Democrats, Republicans adjust to new reality on legislature’s opening day
An era of historic Democratic control in the state Capitol began Monday, with leaders laying out a vision for what those mandates could achieve as Republicans were left hoping for...
Colorado now second state to have a majority of women in the statehouse as session begins
When Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol Monday, they will do so in historic fashion.