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Lawsuit alleges the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law when it leased more than 134,000 acres of public lands in Colorado for oil and gas drilling.

Coloradans will vote this November on a ballot measure that would raise income taxes on the top 3% of earners and slightly cut them for everyone else.

The fate of a decades-long effort to restore intercity passenger rail service to the Front Range is now in the hands of Colorado voters.

Shareholders claim the pricing scheme that doubled the cost to ski at Vail Resorts also violated the law.

The future of the Colorado River is looking bleak, and officials in the seven states that depend on its water say they’re happy to negotiate — but with current use rules expiring at the end of the year, compromise seems unlikely.

Chase Woodruff (Colorado Newsline) High on a ridgeline near the headwaters of the Yampa River, a ditch dug more than a century ago snakes for miles through the rugged terrain of the Routt National Forest, shepherding water from the Yamcolo Reservoir across a 9,000-foot-high mesa to an area south of the town of Yampa, in southern Routt County...

Last month was Colorado’s second-hottest July in 132 years of record-keeping, and a heat wave lasting from July 25 to 28 was the state’s hottest four-day period on record.

Members of the National Rifle Association claim Colorado’s capitol city provides no legal pathway for out-of-state residents to carry firearms for self defense within municipal and county borders.

At the center of the rift is whether upstream states will agree to evenly share mandatory water cuts and accept long-term conservation plans in order to spare downstream states from taking steeper cuts.

A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave in the 75 years that such records have been collected, state climatologists said Tuesday.