The Colorado Sun and Colorado Capitol News Alliance parsed through nearly 650 pieces of legislation debated in the legislature this year to find the ones that will most directly impact people’s lives — or would have had they passed.

Today, the market hosts 130 vendors. The vast majority of those vendors, 91%, are from Larimer and Weld counties.

Another provision in House Bill 1113, a major elections bill headed to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, would let the governor declare a disaster emergency if there is a major election disruption.

House Bills 1221 and 1222 were killed in the Senate Finance Committee on Monday at their sponsors’ request in response to a veto threat from Gov. Jared Polis.

The Larimer County Sheriff's Office says the person who sparked the Sedona Hills fire will not face charges.

State lawmakers spent the last four months debating and passing hundreds of bills on topics as wide-ranging as transit to K-12 schools to workers rights and elections.

Democrats in the legislature referred a measure to the November ballot that would ask voters to increase the state’s cap on government growth and spending by billions of dollars.

The initiative would give Coloradans a “right to natural gas” in the state constitution.

Earning a spot on the Colorado School of Mines microplastics sampling team on the South Platte River requires careful balancing in waist-deep water and occasionally dodging some very inquisitive Canada Geese.

Denver airport workersl initially missed a security breach by a 41-year-old man who scaled an 8-foot perimeter fence and crossed a runway where he was hit and killed by a plane.