DENVER – Southwest Colorado’s lawmakers agree the 2014 legislative session was a good one for the region. It’s a different story from last year, when Republicans left the state Capitol complaining...

DENVER – Senators killed the only remaining wildfire prevention bill of the year Friday afternoon, when the sponsor gave up on finding enough votes to pass it. House Bill 1009 would have increased...

DENVER – New regulations on uranium processing passed the state House on Monday, despite a plea from Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose, that they would destroy hope in the mining towns in his district....

DENVER – It’s Christmas in May for some Coloradans, as the Legislature is poised to approve tens of millions of dollars worth of tax benefits in the last days of its yearly session. Want to launch...

DENVER – The ski season is over, and so is the Legislature’s latest effort to keep the U.S. Forest Service from claiming ski resorts’ water rights. Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, wasn’t expecting...

DENVER – County elected officials will not be getting a raise anytime soon. Senators killed a bill to ask voters to let county commissioners set salaries for themselves and other officials, like...

DENVER – Western Slope legislators’ latest plans to make it harder to amend the state constitution met a familiar fate Wednesday. Legislators, especially those in Western Colorado, have complained...

DENVER – For the past four years, attempts to reform Colorado’s telecommunications laws for the digital age have moved slower than an Internet connection in Silverton. But it appears an upgrade is...

DENVER – Fed up with the politically unpalatable task of setting county salaries, state legislators took steps Wednesday to turn the task over to county leaders. Legislators want to ask voters to...

DENVER – State legislators asserted the right Wednesday to exclude the public from some of their meetings, a move that an open government advocate said was a violation of Colorado’s sunshine laws....

DENVER – A troubled Mancos gold mining company was dealt another blow Wednesday, losing the bond for a mine it owns near Silverton. Red Arrow Gold Corp. has already been sanctioned for building an...