Pay advance company that backed efforts to change Colorado lending laws now faces AG lawsuit

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/6 12:00A Seth Klamann

For the past two legislative sessions, an emerging financial technology company that offers a different kind of paycheck advance has backed efforts to carve its industry out of Colorado s regulations...

Denver leaders want to curb ‘hidden epidemic’ of domestic violence strangulation

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/26 12:00A Shelly Bradbury

On the Tuesday after July 4, a 40-year-old woman was arguing with her longtime boyfriend in their Villa Park home when he grabbed her, put her in a headlock, punched her in the face and strangled her. The woman reached for anything she could use...

Colorado’s new limits on sports betting deposits — and credit card ban — to take effect

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/7 12:00A Noelle Phillips

Colorado gamblers will no longer be allowed to use credit cards to make deposits on sports betting apps, and their deposits will be limited to six per day, beginning Wednesday. The new rules are part of the bipartisan Senate Bill 26-131 passed in...

Denver family’s home lost to foreclosure sits empty in legal limbo: ‘The system feels like...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/5 12:00A Noelle Phillips

A two-story house that once sheltered a family of six sits empty on a corner lot in Green Valley Ranch as years of legal wrangling over homeowners association fines, metro district foreclosures and Denver s affordable housing covenants continue...

This barrier-busting astronaut became one of Colorado’s most famous artists

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 8/3 12:00A Ray Mark Rinaldi

Ed Dwight is as close to a true Colorado hero as any living human might be. He was a barrier-busting aviator, becoming America’s first Black astronaut candidate in 1962, before being diminished in...

Colorado lawmakers said no to private equity for law firms — but most attempts to rein it in have...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 7/29 12:00A Nick Coltrain

Colorado lawmakers this year drew a hard line barring private equity investment in law firms. They also built new regulations for autism treatment providers which are increasingly owned by private...

Denver DSA will try to hold at-large council seat in an unusual special election: ‘The wind is at...

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 7/27 12:00A Elliott Wenzler

The Denver chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, fresh off its most significant electoral win , is already gearing up for its next fight. This November, the organization is preparing to...

US appeals court upholds injunction that blocks Trump’s order to create a federal voter list

The Dever Post (National Politics) 7/26 6:25A The Associated Press

By RUSS BYNUM A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit delivery of mail ballots only to people on that...

Colorado academics worry about future of scientific progress amid fallout from Trump’s research...

The Dever Post (National Politics) 7/19 12:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Casey Fiesler suspects she wound up in the federal government s crosshairs for attempting to combat misinformation. The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded the University of Colorado Boulder information science professor a $268,428 grant in...

The Tennyson Street Fair, a Chicano music festival, and more things to do in Denver

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 7/16 2:00A John Wenzel

Tennyson Street Fair Friday-Saturday. The boisterous Tennyson Street Fair drew an event-best 30,000 attendees last year, and it returns this weekend with refreshed offerings, including pop-ups for Wax...

Colorado’s Sierra Space lands pivotal $798 million ‘Golden Dome’ defense contract

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 7/14 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

Sierra Space announced Monday it has secured a $798 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force , cementing its position as a prime contractor in the Trump administration s Golden Dome for America defense...

Colorado’s health insurance marketplace loses one insurer, gains another

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 7/13 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Colorado s individual health insurance marketplace will gain its first new option in three years in 2027, while losing another. Cigna Healthcare announced earlier this year that it would pull out of all states where it offered individual plans,...

Startups move to Colorado amid concerns state losing its luster for tech companies

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 7/6 2:00A Judith Kohler

Charlie Childs, the CEO of a biotechnology startup, moved the company to Colorado for the lifestyle and because she believes the state is an up-and-coming hub for the industry. Ditto for Blake Herren, head of the startup Raven Space Systems , on...

In Colorado’s battleground race, Rep. Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel make their case to voters now...

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 7/6 2:00A John Aguilar

The final battle phase is now set in Colorado s 8th Congressional District, where over the next 120 days, two men of the same generation will fight for a seat that could well determine control of...

A costly, scorched-earth Denver primary reflects the fight over the Democratic Party’s direction....

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 6/28 2:00A Seth Klamann, Nick Coltrain

When Donna Smith ran against Bill Owens for an Arapahoe County state House seat back in 1986, she put out two mailers, along with distributing signs and flyers. Add in door-to-door canvassing, and her...