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Colorado required to share personal Medicaid data with federal government, which can be used by immigration authorities

In January, the state’s flagship safety net hospital, Denver Health, distributed a one-page notice about patient privacy that carried groundshaking implications, especially for Colorado’s immigrant ...
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Social media companies would have to respond more quickly to warrants under proposed legislation

Lawmakers and Evergreen community members stood near Evergreen High School on Monday to unveil legislation to prevent acts of violent extremism by tightening the time social media companies are ...
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Why your Colorado property tax bill still increased this year

Homeowners across Colorado may have expected their property tax bills to go down this year — after all, their homes may be worth less. Instead, many property owners will see their bills rise again — a ...
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The mysteries of Southern Colorado’s Indigenous rock art: Why it’s there, who made it and what threatens it

Images carved or painted on rock walls in southeastern Colorado by ancient Indigenous peoples often evoke wonder about who made them and why. These petroglyphs and pictographs carved and painted on ...
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Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s newest poet laureate

Colorado has a new ambassador for poetry. Crisosto Apache was named the next poet laureate for the state at an announcement ceremony at the Capitol on Wednesday. Apache, who lives in Lakewood, is a ...
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Here are the Coloradan skiers and snowboarders headed to the Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn headline a list of Coloradans that will head to the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo next month. On Wednesday, U.S. Ski and Snowboard named 97 athletes to ...
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Rural hospitals wrestle with a new landscape after federal cuts, worry they’re starting to drown financially

On Colorado's Eastern Plains, south of Interstate 70, about 100 miles southeast of Denver, is the town of Hugo, established by ranchers, later a railway town. Lincoln Community Hospital and Care ...
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Judges probe arguments over Tina Peters’ appeal

A panel of Colorado appellate judges scrutinized arguments as to what claims former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters should have been able to make at trial in 2024, and whether or not a judge’s strong ...
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House refuses to override Trump veto of Colorado water project

A majority of House Republicans voted to uphold President Donald Trump’s veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act despite a bipartisan and bicameral Colorado push to convince lawmakers to ...
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First lodgepoles, now ponderosas, Colorado is fighting beetles on multiple fronts

Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order on Monday aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests along the front range. Polis said the infestation is in the beginning stages ...
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Keystone was the first resort to open in North America this year. Snowmakers made that possible

Before the sun has even risen over the snow-capped Gore mountains, Bode Kier and Jake Lewis are trudging through feet of snow in the pitch black up one of the 140 ski runs at Keystone Resort. Their ...
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What does a series of record-breaking drug busts mean for Colorado?

Colorado authorities have earned the spotlight in the last month, announcing a series of record-breaking drug busts after months of multiple investigations, pointing to tables full of the often deadly ...