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| Nov 3, 2026 | Applications now open for LEAP | Applications are now open for the Colorado Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP). This state program is designed to help eligible families, seniors, and individuals manage winter home heating costs. The program runs annually from Nove... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Colorado Division of Youth Services director resigns after just a year on the job | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The director of Colorado’s Division of Youth Services announced his resignation Friday, departing his leadership role barely a year after taking the reins over the state’s youth detention centers.
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| Aug 25, 2026 | Broomfield Human Services honored with Three Major State Awards for Excellence | The City and County of Broomfield’s (CCOB) Human Services Department achieved major state recognition, receiving two awards from the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and one from the State Division of Child Welfare.
During an in... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Check SNAP Work Requirements | A new federal law has changed eligibility requirements for SNAP and Standard Utility Allowance (SUA) benefits. You may see changes to benefits at the time of your redetermination.
Some SNAP recipients may be required to work or volunteer 80... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | SNAP Produce Bonus | This summer, Colorado’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is introducing Produce Bonus, making it easy to eat healthy and save on groceries.
Receiving the bonus is simple:
Buy eligible fruits and vegetables at participating s... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Colorado’s proposed SNAP ‘soda ban’ likely dead after judge’s ruling | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s proposed ban on using public food assistance to pay for soft drinks, which already faced a tight approval timeline, is likely dead after a judge on Monday ruled the federal government la... |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Colorado forced out longtime head of deaf services because he was ‘too close’ to his own community, lawsuit alleges | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Cliff Moers, former director of the Colorado Division for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind. (Photo via Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind/Facebook)
Colorado fo... |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Colorado Department of Human Services under investigation amid turnover, complaints and nearly $3 million in payouts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
An outside firm is investigating workplace conditions within the Colorado Department of Human Services amid high turnover in its leadership team, a cascade of formal complaints and millions of doll... |
| Apr 5, 2026 | Colorado eyes changes to courts’ competency process after high-profile case stirred outrage | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado lawmakers want to create a new way to institutionalize mentally ill and disabled people who are accused of serious crimes in an effort to ensure that dangerous people are not set free when... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Colorado SNAP soda ban on hold, but Polis plans order to end state spending on sugary drinks and alcohol | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s proposed ban on allowing the largest food assistance program to pay for soft drinks is on hold while a lawsuit against the federal government plays out, but Gov. Jared Polis is planning ... |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration saw high turnover, low morale even before departing leader took over | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration suffered from high turnover, low worker morale, and an environment in which staff felt undervalued and unable to freely express their ideas and opinions,... |
| Feb 7, 2026 | Colorado wants to limit SNAP from paying for soft drinks. But the board that must finalize the plan is skeptical. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s plan to block food-assistance recipients from using that money to buy soft drinks appears to be stumbling as a board that would need to finalize it expressed reservations Friday and publ... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Fear, tears and stress: Workers allege toxic culture inside Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado Behavioral Health Administration Commissioner Dannette Smith (Photo courtesy of Behavioral Health Administration)
At 9 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2024, a group of 25 leaders from Colorado’s Behavior... |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Three Colorado mayors ask for legislative response on crime and AI (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As mayors with varying political affiliations representing the three largest cities in our state, we are writing to ask Colorado lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis to address these priorities aimed at ... |
| Jan 7, 2026 | Federal Funding Freeze Hits Vulnerable Families, Igniting State Backlash | The Trump administration has frozen over $10 billion in federal aid. Child care, social services, and low-income family programs face cuts. Five Democratic-led states bear the brunt: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New York. The ... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Trump administration freezes Colorado funding for child care, families in ‘deep poverty’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado is facing a “devastating” freeze in federal funds meant for the state’s poorest families as part of a broader swipe the Trump administration took at five Democratic-led states Tuesday.
The... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Violence, 16-hour days and no support: Why staff say they’re fleeing Colorado’s juvenile detention centers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Carissa Wallace started working at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden two years ago because she felt strongly about helping rehabilitate young people convicted of crimes.
She love... |
| Dec 8, 2025 | DOJ investigating whether Colorado prisons and youth detention centers violate inmates’ rights | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth detainees through excessive force, inadequate... |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Loveland man found guilty of 2nd-degree murder, sexual assault of Chantell Wilkes in August 2022 | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This article has been changed to correct the possible sentence Asa Peck faces for the sexual assault charge. He faces 4-12 years to life in prison.
After around 12 hours of deliberat... |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Denver prosecutors add forgery charges to former lawmaker’s legal woes in fake letters case | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Denver prosecutors have charged a former state senator with three counts of forgery after she allegedly faked letters of support to a legislative committee that was investigating her.
Sonya Jaquez ... |
| Oct 31, 2025 | TGTHR plans to reopen services to help unhoused youths in Boulder | TGTHR, the Boulder nonprofit that serves young people experiencing homelessness, hopes to have its street outreach teams and daily drop-in centers fully up and running by the end of the year.
TGTHR also plans to hire four new staff members ... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Colorado Propositions LL and MM would bolster state’s beleaguered universal school meals program | Voters will decide the future of Colorado’s universal free school meals program this November through a pair of ballot measures sent to them by the legislature.
Propositions LL and MM are aimed at fulfilling the promises made for the new pr... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Colorado sees jump in ‘kinship’ foster families after state increases support, simplifies process | Nearly 40% more relatives and other “kin” are receiving state support to help raise children in Colorado’s foster care system than were at this time last year, after legislators streamlined the process for families that want to take in a ch... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Colorado juvenile detention staff violated strip-search policy 1,000 times in 9 months, watchdog finds | Staff at Colorado’s juvenile detention centers violated policies meant to protect youth during strip searches more than 1,000 times during nine months between 2023 and 2025, according to a new review by the Child Protection Ombudsman of Col... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Youth detention center in Golden emptied amid what advocates called deteriorating safety conditions | Colorado’s Division of Youth Services last month removed all youth from its Lookout Mountain detention center amid what advocates say were deteriorating safety conditions.
All 36 young people at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Gol... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Off-duty Colorado police chief’s road-rage-like confrontations prompted 911 calls, investigation finds | He was in the unmarked vehicle, outside of hospital grounds, off-duty and sometimes wearing plain clothes during the confrontations, the investigation found. It was not immediately clear Thursday whether the unmarked vehicle was equipped wi... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Here’s how the Trump tax bill will impact Colorado, from Medicaid to new tax breaks to energy credits | A clearer loss for the state budget is set to come in 2027. That’s when the federal government will start reducing how much states can tax health care providers, such as hospitals. Colorado currently charges the maximum provider tax rate of... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | The Judicial Tug-of-War: Democracy at Stake | In the grand theater of American politics, the judiciary stands as a silent sentinel. Yet, its role is increasingly under siege. Populist leaders, like former President Trump, have turned judges into scapegoats. They paint them as obstacles... |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill risks food assistance for tens of thousands of Coloradans, think tanks estimate | “If you’re able to work, then you should go to work,” she said. “Even the Bible says if you don’t work, you don’t eat. There’s a lot of pride that comes with earning a living and going out and being a part of the workforce.”
But Democrats a... |
| May 20, 2025 | The Shadows of Neglect: A Child's Tragic Death in Colorado | In the quiet corners of rural Colorado, a tragedy unfolded that would shake the community to its core. The death of Isaiah Stark, a seven-year-old boy, has ignited a firestorm of questions about child welfare, accountability, and the system... |
| May 15, 2025 | A boy likely died from drinking too much olive brine. A Colorado county tried to make the suspicious case disappear | The suspicious circumstances surrounding Isaiah Stark’s death and subsequent revelations about the ensuing investigations have prompted serious concern from child welfare workers, who question whether officials in the rural Colorado county ... |
| Mar 2, 2025 | Crime and Public Safety | Broken bones, excessive force and drug overdoses: Inside Colorado’s juvenile detention facilities | At least 135 allegations of excessive force, or one every 2.7 days
At least 47 allegations of staff or family members bringing in illicit drugs, including cocaine and fentanyl
At least seven allegations that staff engaged in sexual relation... |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Crime and Public Safety | Teen in Greeley youth detention center died from fentanyl overdose, coroner rules | Personnel returned soon afterward to find the teen unresponsive in his room. Staff administered naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, and performed CPR.
He died two weeks later, on Nov. 4, at Children’s Hospital Colorado... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Colorado DAs push for more beds in state’s youth detention centers after decades of declines | Nearly 8% of children and teens were held 30 days or more after the court ordered they could be released.
“We’re wholeheartedly opposed to (the 324) number,” said Anaya Robinson, a senior policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties ... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Staffer allegedly provided drugs to teen in Greeley youth detention center who later died, report says | It’s not known whether the Weld County coroner has ruled on the cause and manner of the 16-year-old’s death or completed a toxicology report, which can take weeks or even months. The Weld County Coroner’s Office did not respond to a request... |
| May 3, 2024 | Health | Mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children get another look | “This is designed to help individuals who are disproportionately impacted,” Villafuerte said. “I’m hoping it’s the combination of these efforts that could make a difference.”
Some critics worry that changes to the law could result in missed... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Coloradans struggling to pay monthly utility bills, agencies say | Provided by Energy Outreach ColoradoAgencies and organizations that help weatherize homes and help people pay their utility bills say Coloradans continue to struggle with energy costs. They say overall elevated costs of living are the reaso... |
| Nov 22, 2023 | Business | Turkey is cheaper, but inflation raised prices of other Thanksgiving fixings | The good news this Thanksgiving is that the price of turkey and eggs is down significantly this year. The bad news is the price of just about everything else is up.
The bird flu swept through the country’s turkey farms in 2022, driving up t... |
| Feb 3, 2023 | Health
Health | 325,000 Coloradans will lose Medicaid. Vaccines won’t be free for everyone. Changes are coming as feds wind down COVID response. | Starting in April, Colorado will see the largest shift in how people get their health insurance since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014.
About 325,000 people in Colorado are expected to be disenrolled from Medicaid as federal rule... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Burned by high heat costs? State regulators invite utility customers to vent. | State regulators want to hear from people who are having trouble with high utility bills while the Polis administration is offering rebates of up to $1,044 to qualified Coloradans to help with heat expenses.
Saying that “energy affordabilit... |
| May 23, 2022 | News
News | Local, state, federal leaders discuss Afghan resettlements in Colorado | Since August, Colorado has welcomed more than 2,000 evacuees from Afghanistan, while thousands more await to be resettled in the United States.
A panel of local, state and federal representatives discussed during a Zoom webinar Monday morni... |
