Gov. Jared Polis requested federal assistance to help with the recovery from this summer’s Aspen Acres and Gold Mountain fires but President Donald Trump has shown his willingness to deny federal funding to help Colorado.
Veteran Colorado politicos from the Democratic and Republican parties are coming together as Courageous Colorado to lay the groundwork for another series of ballot campaigns intended to reshape Colorado elections.
Trump’s Executive orders to limit mail-in ballots, lawsuits over voter registration data, threats to funding and more have poured out of the White House leading up to the 2026 general election.
The shelved projects, many already approved, span more than 200 sites.
The Supreme Court’s chief justice is allowing the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom project for now.
State lawmakers have introduced new legislation this year with the aim of protecting polling places.
The Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign against Iran. It’s promising an “economic D-Day” against a country that has so far withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has refused to talk about his communications with President Donald Trump and his administration about Tina Peters, even as Peters credited a senior White House official for helping to effectuate her release.
Denver’s Waste No More ordinance, now called the Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance, begins Sept. 1 but many Denver apartment buildings, restaurants and businesses don’t yet know that it’s happening.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet asked Senate leadership to launch committee investigations into the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding and close a marquee climate lab in Colorado last year, alleging that the apparent retribution “strikes at the core of our democracy.”