Representative Scott Tipton News

Rural schools across the Western Slope sit disconnected, waiting for a promised network that will bring broadband internet access to their communities.

Pascagoula Councilman-at-large Harold Tillman Jr., Biloxi Ward 6 Councilman Ed Gemmill and Ocean Springs Ward 6 Alderman James Hagan, all Republicans, were defeated.

DENVER - Rep. Scott Tipton had one of his greatest successes in his two years in Congress last month when the House overwhelmingly passed his bill to promote small hydroelectric projects on canals and pipelines.But it turns out the bill will not help one of the dams in the Cortez Republican's own district.Gary Kennedy,...

Pascagoula Councilman at large Harold Tillman, left, will fight to keep his seat in the May 21, 2013, runoff election against Brenda Simkins.

A Colorado conservative group believed to be targeted by the Internal Revenue Service is operating without any tax-exempt status and spent more than $1 million last year against Democrats, public records show.

There's a story in western Colorado involving Colorado National Monument that bears watching.

Senator Mike Udall and Congressman Scott Tipton urge the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to permanently locate a veterans benefits administration counselor right here in the Grand Valley.

At least two Colorado Tea Party groups believe they were caught up in a politically targeted campaign by the Internal Revenue Service to make it hard for small, conservative groups to incorporate as tax-exempt organizations.

The U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act by a 69-27 vote last week. The bill generally would subject online shopping to state sales taxes.

Network engineer Will Duquette adjusts power wires in a fuse panel at Great Works Internet in April in Biddeford, Maine.

As fire season bears down, political leaders gathered in Denver this week urge additional action on wildfires.

The Office of Inspector General is planning an audit of Broomfield-based EAGLE-Net Alliance, the recipient of a $100.6 federal broadband grant that has faced intense scrutiny over its network rollout and spending over the past year, according to Colorado Representatives Cory Gardner and Scott Tipton.

I've been working on a Colorado map. I think it can produce a 6-1-1 delegation. I didn't take into account incumbent Democrats, but I don't think they'd have a huge problem with this map.

Congressional Western Congress Co-Chairmen Steve Pearce, left, R-NM and Cynthia Lummis, R-WY, hold a hearing on forests health and wildfires in Denver on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

WESTERN SAN JUANS U.S. Sen. Mark Udall testified in Senate subcommittee last Thursday, April 25, on behalf of his proposed legislation to federally preserve more than 61,000 acres of public land in San Miguel, Ouray and San Juan counties.

"Colorado is no longer politically purple. Nope. These days it's somewhere between Air Force and Midnight on the blue scale." Curtis Hubbard, editor of the editorial page for the Denver Post, declared the above earlier this year in an article detailing the success of progressive Democrats in legislating restrictions on the 2nd Amendment, providing ... (more)

Colorado lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are reaching across party lines to try and protect more than 100,000 acres of the Hermosa Creek watershed north of Durango.