Colorado’s coronavirus test positivity rate has risen above 5%, an alarming surge that Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday said means Coloradans need to take immediate action to slow down the spread of the disease. “We need to get this under control now,” Polis said at a news conference at the governor’s mansion in downtown Denver. […]
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Jared Polis says Colorado’s mask mandate will continue into November
Gov. Jared Polis on Friday said he will extend Colorado’s mask-wearing mandate into November. The directive, right now, is set to expire on Oct. 12. At a news conference on Friday, Polis said he will keep it going for at least another 30 days, urging Coloradans to abide by the mandate. “Just wear a mask,” […]
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How Amazon hid its safety crisis in Colorado — and nationwide
This story was produced by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Get their investigations emailed to you directly by signing up at revealnews.org/newsletter. By Will Evans, Rachel de Leon, Katharine Mieszkowski, Soo Oh, Andrew Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Matt Thompson and Nikki Frick, Reveal On Cyber Monday 2014, Amazon operations chief Dave […]
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All Coloradans will be able to track their mail-in ballot this November
By Patty Nieberg, The Associated Press/Report for America Colorado is expanding its mail-in ballot tracking app so that all voters in the state can use it, Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced Monday. Colorado voters in all 64 counties will be able to check the status of their mailed ballots for the 2020 election and […]
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University of Colorado Boulder faces enrollment decline
BOULDER — Enrollment at the University of Colorado Boulder for incoming freshmen is expected to drop by more than 12% this year, contributing to the additional $25 million budget shortfall amid the pandemic, officials said. Chancellor Phil DiStefano told the university system’s Board of Regents on Thursday that overall enrollment is expected to decline by […]
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Record demand for Colorado resort homes is further pinching affordable housing for locals
As a young teacher 25 years ago, Larkin Beaman almost bought a hotel room that was converted into a studio condo in downtown Telluride. It was $80,000 for 371 square feet. Last month the ninth-grade teacher at Telluride High School toured the same unit. It was going for $445,000 and sold in a blink. “I […]
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Glenwood Springs needs $10.5 million — right now — to prepare for watershed impacts of Grizzly Creek Fire
GLENWOOD CANYON — Standing mere feet from where a human-caused spark on Interstate 70 above the Colorado River ignited the now 32,000-acre Grizzly Creek fire, Jonathan Godes painted a nightmare scenario that could have been. Glenwood Springs’ mayor said if that spark had been 5 miles downstream and exploded into a wildfire the size of […]
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Colorado is debating abortion access again, and it’s quickly getting emotional
Prepare for an onslaught of abortion debate in the next two months on social media, in the mail and on television as Colorado once again prepares to vote on an abortion measure. A Colorado Springs-based issue committee for Proposition 115 — which would prohibit abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy — calls itself “End Birthday […]
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Colorado’s governor says people should expect coronavirus school closures as in-person learning resumes
Fort Lupton High School. Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy in Westminster. Burlington Middle School. In-person learning in some Colorado school districts has been underway for just a few weeks, and already the coronavirus has prompted closures, canceled classes and quarantines from the Eastern Plains to the Denver metro area. And Gov. Jared Polis says people should […]
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What it’s like for the 100-plus Colorado College students stuck in their dorm after a peer tested positive for coronavirus
Only being allowed outside 20 minutes a day. No air conditioning. Waiting until it’s a “necessity” to go to the bathroom. That’s what life is like for the more than 100 Colorado College students quarantined in their dorm for two weeks after one of their peers tested positive for the coronavirus on the third day […]