Colorado Springs cracks down on homeless camping in hopes of pushing people toward shelter, services
Jeremy Krause has a simple code for making it on the streets of Colorado Springs: “Stay dry and avoid the cops.”
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State funding could be withheld from Colorado cities that don’t tie housing to transit under new affordability push
Colorado Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that would send millions of dollars to cities that agree to encourage denser housing near transit — and withhold state highway funding from those that don’t.
Plan to ensure there’s end-of-life cash to plug all Colorado oil wells may fall short, study says
New Colorado rules to insure there is enough cash to plug each oil and gas well in the state at the end of its life may not generate enough money to do the job, according to an analysis by Carbon Tracker.
Beef, quality-stamped by an in-person grader, may soon be graded by someone looking at a picture
In the old days, if a small or midsize beef processor wanted to get the most out of their highest-quality meat, they had to do as the big processors do: pay a living, breathing human sometimes upward of $114 an hour to travel to their plant, often out in the boonies, and grade the meat ranchers sold them after seeing it in person.
New $30 million Colorado rental assistance program launches this week
State leaders opened a new temporary rental assistance grant program this week that will use $30 million approved by the Colorado legislature in November to try to keep people in their homes after eviction filings reached record high numbers in pockets of the state last year.
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It’s official: Amache National Historic Site in Southeast Colorado ensures federal protection for former Japanese American incarceration camp
Nearly two years after legislation designated the site of Colorado’s Granada War Relocation Center — also known as Camp Amache — part of the National Park System, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Thursday formally closed the deal that creates Amache National Historic Site
Denver has helped 40,000 migrants while Colorado Springs counts 24 families. Does being a sanctuary city matter that much?
El Paso County commissioners, voices amplified by a microphone, left no room for misinterpretation: Migrants are not welcome in Colorado Springs.
Colorado could become the first state to require in-person voting in jails
Colorado could become the first state to require county jails to set up in-person voting stations for incarcerated voters under a Democratic-backed bill that has sparked criticism that it would pose financial and logistical hurdles to already-strapped sheriff’s offices.
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Purchase, sale and transfer of so-called assault weapons would be banned in Colorado under new bill
Two Denver Democrats on Tuesday introduced a measure that would ban the purchase, sale and transfer of a broad swath of semi-automatic firearms, defined in the bill as assault weapons, in Colorado.
Hundreds of formerly federally regulated Colorado wetlands and streams are unshielded right now
What’s the best way to protect hundreds of acres of wetlands and streams in Colorado, in the absence of federal rules that once did that work? It’s one of the biggest water issues facing state lawmakers this year.