Colorado Government News

Several early childhood professionals recently completed education in an Expanding Quality Infant-Toddler Care class.

Colorado's unemployment rate in April continued to fall, dropping to 6.9 percent from March's 7.1 percent.

Poole had extra reason to be cautious on May 13, as there was a 4- to 5-foot wall of snow in front of him on the stretch of road 2 miles beneath the summit.

Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university.

The Colorado Department of Corrections says 30-year-old Kenneth Gomez was arrested without incident Friday.

Late this afternoon, the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers released a long-awaited technical guidance prepared with the Department of Public Safety on the implementation of House Bill 1224 , the magazine limit bill.

A package containing 91 death certificates was lost after being sent by courier from one state office to another in March, 7NEWS confirmed with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

State Policy Analyst Kyla Hoskins speaks about the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange at Progressive 15's Affordable Care Act Summit May 2, 2013, at the Country Steak-Out in Fort Morgan.

The Aims Community College Board of Trustees posthumously awarded former CFO Michael Kelly the 2013 Aims Fellow award.

What? Charles Johnson reports for TheDC: "The Department of Homeland Security, which under Secretary Janet Napolitano has shown a keen interest in monitoring and warning about outspoken conservatives, takes a very different approach in monitoring political Islamists, according to a 2011 memo on protecting the free speech rights of pro-sharia Muslim ... (more)

The shocking murders of Tom Clements, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, and Nathan Leon, an IBM employee and part-time pizza delivery driver from Golden apparently at the hands of former state prisoner Evan Ebel have led to a long overdue audit into prison sentences and the way they are carried out.

Days after a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others, Gov.

Here it is, folks: Chef Hosea Rosenberg is shilling for the Colorado Lottery. For those who can't remember who he is, Hosea won Top Chef season five He is also known for shilling for Whole Foods and for having a head that resembles a thumb .

A snowblower attached to the front of a Colorado Department of Transportation loader chews an 8-foot-wide swath through the 5-foot-high snowpack 2 miles from the summit of Independence Pass.

Colorado Department of Transportation crews are having a hard time keeping cyclists off a closed trail in Vail.

In addition to being harmful for the health of animals, it is illegal to feed deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, pronghorn, bears and elk in Colorado, according to a press release from the agency.

Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post reports today that former Congressman and 2010 third-party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo is considering a rematch run for Governor against incumbent Democrat John Hickenlooper : In 2010, Tancredo ran in a tumultuous gubernatorial contest as a third-party candidate, netting more than 35 percent of the vote in a ... (more)

Colorado water experts will try to figure out how to manage the state's most precious resource in an era when all signs points to increasing shortages and the potential for growing conflicts within the state and the region over its allocation.

Following the passage of several new and strict gun control laws , four Colorado legislators are facing recall elections.