The Colorado Sun

How to register to vote, cast your ballot and more FAQs about Colorado’s 2024 election

Election day is Nov. 5, and voters across Colorado will be casting ballots that will decide the outcome of the presidential race, congressional contests, statewide ballot measures, legislative battles and a myriad of local issues.

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Denver’s 7A: What you need to know about RTD’s request to keep all its sales tax revenue

Metro Denver-area voters will decide Nov. 5 whether the Regional Transportation District can continue to keep all of its sales tax revenue in coming years, even when a strong economy pushes revenue up above caps set in the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. 

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Forest Service closes Colorado caves to limit spread of bat disease that has killed millions of animals

This spring, wildlife biologists found 32 bats on the Front Range with white-nose syndrome, up from one on the Eastern Plains in 2023. This month federal wildlife officials reported the first bat in Utah infected with the syndrome that has killed millions of bats across North America in recent years.

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From Greeley to Pueblo, Front Range cities still need new water storage

When a city must find its water 50 miles away and 1,400 feet underground, in an aquifer whose origins first had to be pegged to the late Cretaceous and the early Paleogene periods, and further delineated between Colorado turf on the surface or Wyoming land just a skosh to the north, while drilling two-way wells at $1 million each on the way to an eventual price tag approaching $400 million, and then filter out dissolved uranium, it would seem a stretch to call this plan the easy way out.  

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