Colorado Democrats rejected a Republican proposal for a sales-tax holiday on disaster preparedness items like first aid kits, flashlights and bottled water. The proposal would have created a state sales tax holiday on the first weekend in September this year …
Colorado lawmakers are debating a change in state law that would allow cars without drivers on roads. A bill to make Colorado at least the fifth state where automatic cars are legal is up for its first debate Tuesday in …
Hundreds of homeowners living near the Waldo Canyon burn area in Colorado Springs are getting more sandbags to limit flooding this spring. Officials say the risk of flooding has increased by 350 percent as a result of environmental damage to …
A new federal policy should protect “good Samaritan” groups from liability if they try to stanch dangerous chemicals leaking from abandoned mining sites in the Colorado mountains and beyond, environmental officials say. The Denver Post reported Sunday that the Environmental …
Recent earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere were induced by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater, federal geologists planned to argue in a report announced Wednesday. The Denver Post reported Tuesday that Colorado drilling regulators said more study is needed …
Colorado now ranks among the top 10 for the highest share of homeowners insurance claims paid out due to catastrophes. The Insurance Research Council says catastrophes triggered only 26 percent of the claims made on homeowner policies from 1997 to …
It’s settled. Pot is legal in Washington and Colorado. But how much is too much to drive? That’s what officials are trying to figure out, and it isn’t as easy as measuring a driver’s blood alcohol content. Marijuana stays in …
Coroner’s officials say a construction worker who fell from the roof of a house in Fort Collins, Colo., died after striking his head. The Larimer County coroner’s office said Wednesday that 40-year-old Joseph John Weigand of Fort Collins died of …
The film studio that released the Batman film playing during the Colorado theater shooting is among the donors that have given a total of nearly $2 million to a fund set up for victims. Warner Bros., which released “The Dark …
A newspaper’s analysis indicates that Colorado’s most destructive wildfire burned homes worth a total of more than $110 million in one of the neighborhoods affected by the blaze. The Denver Post reports the actual losses are expected to run much …