Colorado News

Nine more flu-related deaths have been reported in Colorado, bringing the total number of deaths this season to 34.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man in connection with two bank robberies in Grand Junction, Colo.

Colorado is about to become the first state to lower its minimum wage. On Jan. 1, the wage will be reduced by 3 cents an hour to the federal minimum of $7.25. The reduction will take place because the recession has driven down the cost of living.

Coloradans reacted with shock and grief after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, but none of the state's major military installations said they were changing their security precautions.

The 2010 MISS COLORADO USAA and MISS COLORADO TEEN USAA Pageants took place Sunday evening at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, Colorado.

Five men and four women alleged to be in an identity theft and forgery ring operating in Jefferson County have been indicted by a grand jury for racketeering under Colorado's Organized Crime Control Act.

MORE ON 9NEWS @ 4 P.M. KUSA -The former executive director of the Colorado Republican Party authorized the downloading of a massive e-mail list from the Republican National Committee in direct violation of a contract signed between the two entities.

Keystone Resort is open for the season. Keystone says a snowstorm that moved through Colorado last week helped it open Thursday, a day earlier than planned.

Colorado's Republican gubernatorial candidates say Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's economic policies are hurting Colorado workers.

Authorities say a knife-wielding man briefly held two state employees hostage at a northern Colorado weigh station after being told to park his truck overnight.

A state audit estimates that as many as 225,000 people are driving illegally in Colorado and that unlicensed drivers were involved in nearly one-fourth of all fatal crashes last year.

So, there was an election yesterday. What happened in Colorado? Denver voters rejected an initiative proposing mandatory car impoundment for driver's without licenses.

About 100,500 new cases of cancer are caused by obesity every year, according to the most comprehensive attempt ever to estimate the cancers attributed to extra weight.

It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine.

Ahh, the perils of television news graphics libraries. On the Today Show on NBC Tuesday morning, during a story about the congressional race in New York's 23rd District between Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens , the graphic on the screen showed a photo of former Colorado Governor and Republican Bill Owens.

The Colorado man killed when a Coast Guard plane and Marine Corps helicopter collided last week off the southern California coast was a graduate of the University of Colorado.

Gov. Bill Ritter named Windsor as one of three locations in Colorado that will call home to a National Guard armory and readiness center on 25 acres of land.

Breckenridge made pot legal, Denver rejected a get-tough proposal on unlicensed drivers, and tax hikes were turned back around the state Tuesday in municipal elections that appeared to show a public in an anti-government mood.

Authorities in Pueblo say they're investigating whether a man suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas may be responsible for unsolved assaults in Colorado.

A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard's disappearance stretched into decades.