Colorado Government News

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is joining U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to announce new options for children's health care.

One of two people killed in a small plane crash in southern California is reportedly a fire official from Colorado.

I wrote a short article for our October issue about how it was illegal - and had been for more than a century - for Coloradans to collect precipitation that falls on their property.

Colorado education officials have agreed to audit a Pueblo-based network of charter schools amid allegations of cheating on standardized tests and questions about salaries paid to top administrators.

A 45-year-old Fort Collins mother is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy who also was part of a group that enjoys dressing up as animals.

"Cuts to Medicaid benefits for hundreds of developmentally disabled people in Colorado take effect today, a move that will be devastating, caretakers and advocates say," The Gazette reports.

ASPEN, Colorado - The energy-climate bill passed last week in the House will face an even tougher battle in the Senate, U.S. Sen.

The state's budget problems continued to worsen this week. State economists told the Joint Budget Committee and the Governor's Office on Monday that Colorado is $249 million short for the 2008-'09 fiscal year, which ends on June 30, and is another $135 million behind in 2009-'10 fiscal year projections.

Tonight, weather permitting, Colorado Department of Transportation maintenance crews will repair potholes on northbound and southbound I-25 over the South Platte River near Invesco Field as well as on the ramp from US 36 to I-25. The repairs on southbound I-25 were originally scheduled to take place today, but crews were able to hold off until ...

LOUISVILLE - Steve Farrell is grateful for the job he has at technology company Rocky Mountain Ram, even though his hours were cut in half in April.

Jim Isgar will resign his Colorado Senate seat for the new job. Democrats will appoint a successor.

Legislative leaders are giving an estimated $1.5 million back to the state. The House, which has 65 members, will return about $900,000. The senate, which has 35, will give back about $627,000. The money wasn't spent during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

Abortion opponents in Colorado want to try again to pass an amendment giving human rights to embryos.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will be in Colorado Tuesday to help break ground on Colorado's latest highway stimulus project.

Colorado's online system for filing unemployment claims has been crashing lately, leaving thousands of people worried about receiving their benefits.

KKTV has received several calls from viewers saying the state unemployment line is down and people are unable to get through.

As the state budget crisis worsened this year, Sen. Paula Sandoval made a decision that saved taxpayers several thousand dollars: She quit taking per diem.

A jury on Friday convicted a Chilean national in the 1997 beating death of a University of Colorado student, a crime that was cold for about a decade until a DNA sample connected him to the murder.

The tuft-eared cats with big, padded feet were native to Colorado, but were wiped out by the early 1970s by logging, trapping, poisoning and development.

Colorado's members of Congress voted along party lines in the House climate bill -- except for Democratic Rep.