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Colorado is one key step closer to distinguishing teachers who effectively help students learn from those who don't. But we certainly haven't overcome every obstacle to delivering top-notch instruction.

Eagle County representatives became the first large group of 40 entities to sign the Colorado River Cooperative Agreement at Tuesday's Board of Commissioner meeting.

The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange received a $17.9 million grant Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop the infrastructure to make an Internet health insurance marketplace work.

The state Senate passed an ethics reform bill Thursday morning. The measure moves onto the House, where it's awaiting a committee assignment.

What: Trout Unlimited's "Rally for Upper Colorado River" Who: Sportsmen, hikers, campers, rafters, kayakers, wildlife enthusiasts- Where: Colorado Capitol building, downtown Denver, west steps.

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Despite concerns raised by the EPA and alarms sounded in a state report, Colorado officials are moving forward with a plan to divert more water from the Upper Colorado River to the Front Range -- which is why anglers, rafters, tourism interests and others will be rallying in protest on the west steps of the State Capitol building tomorrow.

A bill signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper last week aimed at revamping how educators in Colorado are evaluated has many in the state's school system saying it's a step in the right direction.

What: Vail Global Energy Forum. When: March 3 and 4. Where: Vilar Center, Beaver Creek.

State officials have a new plan for improving Colorado's child-welfare system, one that will beef up training for caseworkers, make data about child deaths more readily available, and employ a "common practice approach" in all 64 counties -- an idea that hasn't gotten far in the past, as explained in our cover story, " Death Knell ." In 2009 a ... (more)

Denver Dispatch DEMS PROMISE TO LISTEN, BUT PROTESTS GO UNHEARD by Ted Manna and Joe Shea American Reporter Correspondents Denver, Colo.

On Feb. 9, the Fleming Future Business Leaders of America attended the annual District 4 Leadership Conference.

A 4-year-old boy died Friday, three days after his grandmother was arrested on suspicion of child abuse and less than a week after the boy's family tried to report the alleged abuse to Adams County child welfare.

House Democrats blame election-year politics for the defeat today of two of their bills that originally had GOP support.

A Democratic Senate committee rejected a GOP bill Thursday that would have banned local governments from regulating oil and gas drilling.

A bill to increase Colorado's film incentives has won its first victory, passing the House Economic and Business Development Committee by a vote of nine to three.

Water diverted from the Colorado River near Granby would be stored in a proposed 90,000 acre-foot reservoir at Chimney Hollow, near Carter Lake and the Flatiron Penstocks.

Colorado will overhaul how it trains child-welfare caseworkers, make more information public when a child dies of abuse or neglect and start using data to hold counties accountable for how they deal with reports of child abuse, state officials said Thursday.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced plans on Thursday to better protect kids by making the state's child welfare program more accountable.

Colorado's casino industry dodged one tax bullet Thursday but may lie in the path of another because of a bill that's quietly making its way through the Legislature.