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A company that researches solar thermal energy used in power plants may close due to new Trump administration funding cuts.
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A company that researches solar thermal energy used in power plants may close due to new Trump administration funding cuts.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced it is eliminating $7.6 billion in grants for 16 blue states, including Colorado.
Thousands of federal workers in Colorado are furloughed indefinitely as Congress remains deadlocked on federal funding.
Gov. Jared Polis says a federal government shutdown would increase the risk of a recession, which his budget director says there's already a 50% chance of in Colorado.
Congress has until midnight Tuesday to pass a federal funding bill or the government will shut down. Colorado has 54,300 federal workers.
The health care of hundreds of thousands of Coloradans is in the hands of Congress, which has just a few days to agree on a federal funding package.
The Colorado Hospital Association is warning of further cuts to services, saying the state's hospitals lost $4 billion on Medicaid and Medicare last year and saw a large increase in uncompensated care and operating costs.
The executive director of the Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting says the state has a 50-50 chance of a recession in 2026.
Republicans in the state house have a new leader, and he may be the youngest ever in Colorado.
There are no federal or state laws in Colorado to regulate the license plate reading cameras, which have been misused and abused in some cases.
Police across Colorado say they make communities safer, but privacy experts have a different opinion about license plate readers.
Republican members of Colorado's Congressional delegation are calling for a special session in Colorado to reconsider several bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law.
Colorado's race for governor just got a little more crowded. Republican State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer launched her campaign from Fort Lupton Tuesday evening.
President Trump announced he is moving U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.
Two days after the Colorado Legislature ended a special session where it raised taxes on businesses to close a $750 million budget shortfall, Gov. Jared Polis announced $252 million in budget savings. The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing -- which administers Medicaid -- will see the biggest cut.