Colorado News

Without health-care reform, Colorado businesses will face ever-higher costs over the next 10 years, a new study says.

A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.

State Sen. Josh Penry, considered a rising star in Colorado's Republican Party, plans to drop out of the gubernatorial race, a House colleague said Monday.

Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts students Tanya Chavez, left, age 12, and Irma Evangelista, 14, work in their humanities class Wednesday.

The U.S. Army says it has finished work containing a leak of mustard agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create a new national cemetery in southern Colorado.

An industry group says Colorado's alcohol tax revenues have increased 6 percent since Sunday liquor sales took effect last year.

The Colorado Master GardenerSM program in Morgan/Logan counties is taking applications for the 2010 class being taught at the Morgan County Extension office at 914 E. Railroad Ave.

All but one member of Colorado's congressional delegation has voted along party lines on the health care reform bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House.

Sick Puppy doesn't like the flu. Roy Berreth A three year study on the canine influenza virus, or CIV, is being conducted in Colorado Springs.

Gunfire at a bar near the Colorado ski resort town of Vail has killed one and injured two, and police said a man was quickly arrested in connection with the shooting.

Federal prosecutors say statements from a Washington man accused of threatening a Colorado abortion doctor's family should be admitted in court.

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.