The Colorado legislature has expanded its floor calendars and plans fast agendas as it works to pass legislation on housing, gun regulation, transportation, taxes and other priorities ahead of the end of the 2024 session next week. Here are updates on major action and key developments. This story will be updated throughout the day. Updated … Read more
Fresh off a historic vote to advance a ban on many high-powered, semi-automatic guns, the Colorado House approved three more gun-related bills over the weekend — sending them across the Capitol for another round of debate. Those votes on Saturday were followed Monday by the state Senate’s final approval for two other gun reform bills … Read more
Colorado state Rep. Don Wilson left a handgun in a state Capitol bathroom earlier this week, House leadership and the Colorado State Patrol confirmed Thursday. Wilson, a Monument Republican, apologized on the social media platform X for the Tuesday night incident after a closed-door meeting with House leadership Thursday morning. Colorado House Rep. Don Wilson … Read more
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony. In January, California became the first state to prohibit the medical term from many … Read more
For more than a year, state Rep. Leslie Herod has faced public allegations of sexual assault made by another woman who is active in Colorado Democratic politics, including some leveled in social media posts when Herod was running for Denver mayor. Now Herod says she feels vindicated after a Denver County Court judge last month … Read more
Colorado’s super-minority House Republicans are set to launch a largely symbolic impeachment attempt against Secretary of State Jena Griswold in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot. The bid, announced Thursday, came just days after the state GOP’s leader and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert threatened … Read more
Colorado lawmakers are getting into the meat of the legislative session as we near the March midpoint of the 120-day session, and committees are in full swing. Bills are passing their first chambers, too, and crossing the hall. The first of this year’s land-use bills — a measure to ban occupancy limits — has already … Read more
As Sean Jursnick traveled through Europe, he marveled at its buildings. The Denver-based architect was particularly struck by a type of development that’s largely illegal in the United States: taller apartment buildings with just a single staircase. Such buildings often feature apartments or condos situated around a central flight of stairs, with front doors opening directly … Read more
Colorado would ban the sale, transfer and importation of so-called assault weapons under a bill introduced Tuesday in the state House. The measure, HB24-1292, is similar to legislation that a House committee killed last spring in its first hearing, but this year’s version may have better chances. The new bill would define assault weapons as … Read more
At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium nitrite, so he searched it on the internet. But he accidentally typed in the wrong word, searching instead for sodium nitrate. Still, even the results for the wrong substance … Read more
