Colorado’s race for governor is wide open this year, with Gov. Jared Polis term‑limited and unable to seek reelection. Five candidates are competing for a spot on the November ballot, setting up one of the most closely watched primaries in recent cycles. tinyurl.com/bdcn7epc

One of the most closely watched contests on the June primary ballot is the four‑way Democratic race for Colorado attorney general. tinyurl.com/yc2t6m9k

The Colorado Supreme Court concluded last month that judges can reduce the number of days a parent spends with their child post-divorce to just above zero without it rising to the level of a “restriction” that requires more rigorous justification under the law. tinyurl.com/mr3ymk49

County clerks began mailing primary ballots to voters on Monday, as Colorado wades deeper into a crowded election year. tinyurl.com/5n8n5wby

The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced that it will decide whether Douglas County prosecutors had grounds to pursue criminal charges against a woman in New York whose conduct occurred outside of Colorado. tinyurl.com/yuc94hx9

Democratic attorney general candidate Jena Griswold plays the greatest hits from her two terms as Colorado secretary of state in her campaign’s first TV ad, which began airing Monday, the same day county clerks began sending out primary ballots.

Declaring that Colorado “needs a fighter, not a bystander,” state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, on Monday launched her long-anticipated primary challenge to U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper.

Trisha Calvarese, the Douglas County Democrat who lost a bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert last year in Colorado's most reliably Republican seat, announced Tuesday that she wants a rematch in the 4th Congressional District. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

In Colorado, the older population is growing fast, with ramifications for the major challenges the state already faces, notably housing, healthcare costs and workforce needs. It also affects student enrollment, which, in turn, means a direct impact on school financing.

Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke publicly on Sunday about her longtime friendship with an Alabama man formerly on death row, which began during her time as a law school intern and ended with his execution more than a decade later. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

The state Senate voted 29-6 on Friday morning to override Gov. Jared Polis's veto of a social media bill. The 29-6 vote was five above the two-thirds majority required for an override.

The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a jury will decide whether a Loveland police officer violated a couple's constitutional rights by shooting their puppy in the head and torso. - (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

Horn, 62, stressed the need to mend festering divisions between rival Republican factions before members of the GOP's state central committee elected her to the party's top job on March 29 at the party's biennial reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

"We said don't f--- with moms," Pettersen told reporters while cradling her infant in her arms on the steps of the Capitol.

Colorado utilities are concerned that they may struggle to meet the state's carbon emissions reduction goals if the proposed bill, which has yet to be introduced, changes the current targets. The 2025 legislative session is nearing its final month.

Colorado Republicans on Saturday elected Brita Horn, a former county treasurer and longtime party activist, to a two-year term as state GOP chair at the party's biennial reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs.

Over two decades ago, Timothy P. O'Hara walked into the Chicago courtroom of Judge Thomas More Donnelly and auditioned in a mock trial for a legal fellowship program Donnelly directed. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the state must continue funding a Christian preschool in Chaffee County even though the academy's policies may violate the non-discrimination requirements of Colorado's universal pre-kindergarten program. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

Former Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, a Democrat, on Thursday declared her candidacy for attorney general in next year's election, saying she's "committed to ensuring that every Coloradan is safe, healthy, and economically secure." (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

A Boulder County Democratic vacancy committee will convene on Tuesday, March 18, at 6 p.m. to select a successor to former Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis of Longmont. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

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Voters in Colorado and across the Mountain West prioritize public land conservation over increased energy development on federal lands by a three-to-one margin, according to the annual Conservation in the West Poll. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

The calls for lawmakers to address the Yvonne "Missy" Woods scandal at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are growing louder at the state Capitol. Lawmakers have responded by introducing two bills and requesting a state audit. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

Exactly one year after the Colorado Supreme Court found the state's second-highest court applied the incorrect standard when evaluating a deadly crash involving an Olathe police officer. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

Former senior Trump advisor Steve Bannon is slated to headline the Colorado Republican Party's annual fundraising dinner in March, five months after the popular podcaster's release from federal prison, the state GOP announced Thursday. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced a new bill that would require Colorado animal testing facilities to offer test subjects, such as cats and dogs, to local shelters for adoption.

As first reported by Colorado Politics last week, a construction defects bill intended to jump-start the affordable condo market has begun its journey through the General Assembly. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

Lawyers challenging a collegiate athletic association's policy regarding transgender participants have asked a federal judge to recuse himself from handling the case because of his courtroom protocols. @michaelkarlik.bsky.social

Colorado Senate Democrats, although not unanimously, approved a bill Tuesday morning that would ban the purchase of firearms with detachable ammunition magazines in all but very limited circumstances. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

Colorado second-highest court expressed "some concerns" last week about a Mesa County judge's comparison of a defendant's constitutional right to silence to a hypothetical child who has obviously eaten cookies but refuses to admit it.

Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont, who is under investigation for violating Senate ethics rules, announced her resignation Tuesday morning. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

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Among the 1,407 rape kits awaiting testing by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation is one taken after the alleged sexual assault of Colorado state Rep. Jenny Willford, D-Northglenn, last year. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Kathleen Sgamma, the longtime president of a Colorado-based oil and gas advocacy organization, to head the Bureau of Land Management. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

The House Appropriations Committee reversed the action taken by the state Senate last week, which could allow the Colorado Bureau of Investigation about $3 million to continue testing a backlog of DNA kits into the 2025-26 budget year. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether to permit Boulder County and the city of Boulder to seek damages against two fossil fuel producers. shorturl.at/vvPtU (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

The Senate Ethics Committee began its discussion on the ethics complaint against Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont, on Tuesday but appeared to take a dim view of how she responded to the complaints. shorturl.at/JcAXI (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

A bill expected to be introduced on Tuesday takes a new approach to the problems of affordable condo construction, and its sponsors hope to avoid the battles between homebuilders and trial lawyers in their approach. shorturl.at/DnP3K

It's viewed as the "third rail" in affordable housing - the one path lawmakers have feared to tread. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )

Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal funds. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )

Colorado's second-highest court concluded on Thursday that an Arapahoe County man's conviction for unlawful sexual contact on a child violated his constitutional rights and must be vacated. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )

A bill that would authorize the Attorney General to investigate price gouging on essential items cleared its first hurdle on Thursday, but some have raised concerns about its vague definition of what qualifies as a necessity.