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Son of a Vail mayor, Johnston leads fundraising chase in bid to become mayor of Denver
The 2023 Denver mayor’s race is the first in which candidates could participate in the city’s new Fair Elections Fund, which aimed to level the playing field through the partial…
Climate-change activists sing praises of proposed package of Colorado housing, land-use reforms
“Housing policy is climate policy.” That’s the mantra from Gov. Jared Polis, his top officials and their allies in the environmental movement as the Colorado governor and Democrats in the…
Special legislative panel digs into huge spike in energy costs for utility customers across Colorado
A special Colorado legislative panel on Monday held its latest hearing to study the causes and effects of spiking energy costs for utility customers throughout the state, inviting experts to…
Colorado upgrades electric vehicle plan as sales topped 10% market share in 2022
More than 1 in 10 new cars sold in Colorado in 2022 were electric vehicles, and state officials on Thursday laid out their plans to accelerate a “large-scale transition of…
Protect the West Act would pump $60 billion into western wildfire mitigation, watershed protection
A bill introduced in Congress this week by Colorado Democrats would allocate $60 billion in federal funding for efforts to protect vulnerable forests and watersheds and mitigate wildfire risk throughout…
Polis cool to climate targets in Democratic bill meant to speed Colorado’s clean energy transition
For the third legislative session in a row, an effort by Democratic lawmakers to beef up Colorado’s approach to combating climate change is getting a cool reception from Gov. Jared…
Colorado Parks and Wildlife unveils wolf reintroduction plan, including Vail area
Colorado could be less than a year away from the state’s first relocation of gray wolves to parts of the Western Slope, as required by a ballot initiative passed by…
O’Dea wants to bite the hand that feeds him by slashing government spending
When Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates hit the campaign trail on the Western Slope last month, their paths briefly crossed atop a dam on the Colorado River in the high country…
O’Dea says DeSantis, Abbott ‘right’ to use migrants as political tool by transporting them to blue states
Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea said Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was “right” to transport about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to the island of Martha’s Vineyard this…
Boebert urges far-right Christians to ‘rise up’ in apocalyptic ‘last of the last days’
In a raucous speech at a Christian conference in Woodland Park on Friday, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert called for conservative churchgoers to put “God back at the center of our…