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Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit suing Trump administration for cutting $600M in public health funding

· Feb. 12, 2026

RTD Board Chair believes FasTracks will never be built — and alternatives should be considered

By Tony Gorman and Rae Solomon

· Feb. 11, 2026

Hail, not wildfire, driving largest increase in Colorado’s homeowners insurance premiums

By Ishan Thakore

· Feb. 11, 2026

Colorado required to share personal Medicaid data with federal government, which can be used by immigration authorities

By Bente Birkeland and John Daley

· Feb. 11, 2026

Colorado’s Attorney General just launched a new system for reporting misconduct by ICE, but will it actually work?

Federal Enforcement Washington

Despite a warm winter, the Ouray Ice Fest wasn’t ice-less after all

Two couples, one Indian and one white, sit in a kitchen.

Colorado playwright on immigrant experience in the West, interventionist ghosts and being two things at once

Five Rivers Cattle Feedlot Kersey

A parasitic fly is inching closer to the US border. Colorado livestock leaders are already preparing

athletes running on a field only visible from the waist down

Young athletes are prone to concussions. Now, parents and coaches can learn how to recognize them

By Andrea Dukakis

Students in red t-shirts stand on a large stair case and watch another student speaking at a podium.

115 Colorado students rally to strengthen the state’s ghost gun laws

· Feb. 12, 2026

Colorado bill would require renewable energy for new data centers to guard against rising energy bills

· Feb. 12, 2026

Adobe building with a long porch supported by thick wood posts and additional metal jacks

Fifty-year-old building at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is now among the state’s most endangered places along with other Southern Colorado sites

By Shanna Lewis

· Feb. 12, 2026

Mikaela Shiffrin

Shiffrin addresses Team Combined performance on social media

By Outside Contributor

· Feb. 12, 2026

The u.s. capitol

Government and Politics

U.S. House votes against Trump’s tariff on Canada with help of Hurd and five other Republicans

· Feb. 11, 2026

A white LDS temple is shown on a sunny spring day. The building is made of white stone with a golden spire.

Life and Culture

Colorado Springs City Council gives Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple a unanimous thumbs up

By Briana Heaney

· Feb. 11, 2026

Ripple Cannabis Company co-founder Justin Singe

Potential for contaminated cannabis products in Colorado creates risk for buyers

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Denver Field Office Centennial

Federal cops spent weeks tracking young immigrants, was it for their safety, or to make deportation easier?

By Allison Sherry

Federal law enforcement outside the Cedar Run Apartments

ICE detention, deportation can deny justice in local criminal cases, frustrating prosecutors

By Ben Markus and Allison Sherry

Body-worn camera video shows a man with a long rifle approaching a person with their back to him

Despite efforts at reform, Colorado officers still shoot people at a high rate

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