DENVER - Now that marijuana possession is legal in Colorado, the decision over how to tax it is falling into familiar patterns. The House on Tuesday voted along party lines, 37 Democrats to 27...

DENVER - House Republicans accused Democrats of waging war on rural Colorado when legislators voted Tuesday to increase the renewable-energy mandate for electricity cooperatives. Senate Bill 252...

DENVER – House Democrats have accepted partial defeat in their drive to crack down on the gas and oil industry. They are poised to pass bills that increase fines for pollution and require better...

DENVER — Coloradans ingest an estimated 70 tons of marijuana a year. How much they smoke or eat now that it’s legal will depend, in part, on how much it’s taxed. State legislators are struggling...

DENVER – La Plata’s county clerk returned to the state Capitol this week to testify in favor of changing the way Colorado conducts its elections. On Saturday, a group with Republican ties blanketed...

DENVER - Democrats advanced an election bill Monday night that would replace neighborhood polling places with mail ballots. La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican, was one of the...

DENVER – The state senate voted Monday to expand government health insurance for the poor, a key part of the federal health care law known as Obamacare. Under Senate Bill 200, adults making 133...

DENVER – Democrats pushed a renewable energy bill through the Senate on Monday night despite Republican arguments it would cost rural consumers too much money. Senate Bill 252 requires Tri-State...

DENVER – Colorado’s long legislative gunfight ended Monday, when the House of Representatives approved the last two in the Democrats’ package of gun bills. The bills passed quietly, compared to the...

DENVER – Senators who hoped to buy a fire-fighting air force for the state were left Friday with nothing but paper airplanes. A Senate panel voted to advance Senate Bill 245, which creates the...

DENVER – State representatives passed an overhaul of Colorado’s elections law Friday that will make voting by mail the standard way elections are run. The House also passed bills on gas and oil...