Shaina Oliver, mother of four living in Denver, is a member of the Dinè/Navajo tribe. Shaina has long been outspoken on why Colorandans need their state lawmakers to reduce carbon and methane ...

The Colorado Independent has been amplifying the voices of vulnerable Coloradans and holding public officials to account since 2013. Starting in late spring of 2020, we are teaming up with the ...

Lawmakers recessed for two weeks on March 14, 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. They plan to return to the Capitol on May 26. (Photo by John Herrick) Temperature checks. A closed cafeteria. Spaced ...

Editor’s note: This story originally was published on Nov. 17, 2019. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund submitted to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office what it said are ...

When one of your first jobs involves collecting several dead bodies every day for six months in the 110-degree heat of an Iraqi war zone, says Leroy Garcia, you return home with a clearer perspective ...

It was early April and the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents hunkered down for a second day at Denver International Airport’s Westin Hotel interviewing prospects for the school’s next ...

Local news publishers are struggling. We all get that. And over the years they might have made compromises because of economic realities. For some, the trade-off could be those compromises mean ...

Gov. Polis speaks to students at the Greenlee Elementary School on March 22, 2019 after he and lawmakers announced a plan to fund full-day kindergarten. (Photo by John Herrick) When Gov. Jared Polis ...

Colorado College has turned over management and operation of its public radio station, KRCC-FM, to Colorado Public Radio as part of a broader plan to create a new “public media center” in downtown ...

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Sen. Rhonda Fields watched from the sidelines as her Democratic colleagues held a press conference March 5 explaining why they wanted to repeal the death penalty in Colorado. (Photo by Alex Burness) ...

It takes fewer than five pages for Colorado to make its first cameo in a new book called Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy, written by Washington Post media ...