When some of Colorado’s Democratic lawmakers found out about Gov. Jared Polis’s decision not to extend the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home order and instead allow certain types of businesses to soon begin reopening, they were frustrated.

Colorado aligned itself Monday with other Democratic-run states in the West, joining a regional pact as it begins to reopen sectors of the state economy.

Dazbog, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Pizza Republica and others that rent city-owned space have the option to defer rent payments for three months this year.

Two Denver City Council members denied the Hancock administration’s request to add a last-minute item to the council agenda Monday — perhaps delaying receipt of millions in federal cash to the city by a week — in a move an administration official called a protest vote.

Glimmers of normal life twinkled ever so faintly in parts of Colorado on Monday as the state became one of the first in the country to lift its stay-at-home order.

Hillary Clinton, the first woman to become a major party’s presidential nominee, will endorse Joe Biden’s White House bid on Tuesday, according to a Democrat who requested anonymity to discuss the plan.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday meant to stave off a shortage of chicken, pork and other meat on American supermarket shelves because of the coronavirus.

The development manager accused of showing favoritism toward a construction bidder on the Colorado Convention Center expansion project has signed a $250,000 settlement with state investigators.

Hospital CEO Robin Wittenstein received the largest bonus, getting $230,275 on top of her $967,155 base salary.

A sexual assault allegation is raising Joe Biden’s first big challenge as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and leaving many in his own party in an uncomfortable bind.

Denver officials cleared a large homeless encampment downtown Thursday morning contrary to Centers for Disease Control guidelines for handling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Senate candidate Lorena Garcia must be placed on the June 30 primary ballot, a Denver District Court judge ruled Thursday.

Restaurants, bars, fitness centers and movie theaters are among businesses that are not allowed to reopen.

In an election year unlike any other, the predictable had occurred. Andrew Romanoff won the Democratic state assembly, setting up a head-to-head U.S. Senate primary between him and John Hickenlooper. This is what the pundits and reporters had expected. This was predictable.

Mayor Michael Hancock said Thursday he expects to issue a mandate next week requiring Denver residents to wear face masks in public.

Sponsors are abandoning efforts to create a paid family and medical leave program in Colorado through legislation, announcing Friday they will instead support a ballot initiative already in the works. The proposed family leave bill faced rough waters from the beginning, but the coronavirus pandemic proved to be an insurmountable obstacle, the Democratic would-be sponsors […]

The order requires residents and employees to wear masks while inside — our waiting outside of — retail or commercial businesses, at bus stops, facilities offering health care services and more.

Six months from Election Day, President Donald Trump’s prospects for winning a second term have been jolted by a historic pandemic and a cratering economy, rattling some of his Republican allies and upending the playbook his campaign had hoped to be using by now against Democrat Joe Biden.