Regional News

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said that “Phase 2” of the rollout of extended unemployment benefits authorized by the Continued Assistance Act, the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package enacted in late December, will resume payments to claimants whose benefits were exhausted, as well as those who have filed a new claim since the bill’s passage.

The number of people working from home across the nation and the state has increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. This has pushed sustainability leaders to look at how telecommuting could decrease overall emissions.

Products like biochar could provide the financial motivation for fire mitigation products, which reduce fuels but also creates massive piles of unwanted timber.

Colorado’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 and how it is delivering vaccines to residents earned the state a ranking as the fourth safest in a recent comparison by personal finance website WalletHub .

What do parents want? Advocacy groups have released results from competing polls that come to opposite conclusions to argue that the general public agrees with them.

The framework includes a long list of policy priorities aimed at helping Western communities become “more resilient in the face of a changing climate,” from investments in forest restoration and watershed protection to efforts to help fossil-fuel-dependent economies transition to a clean-energy future.

The bill sends an extra $60 million to school districts — $41 million to make up for lost local tax revenue and another $19 million to districts that saw particularly large enrollment declines or that experienced a notable decrease in the number of students living in poverty. 

How will child care providers — many of them small businesses with limited administrative support — get shots in arms at a time when vaccine demand outstrips supply? County health departments are answering that question in different ways around the state.

A new bill to create an affordability board is expected to be introduced when the Legislature reconvenes later this month.

What voters couldn’t have anticipated in 2018 when they approved a new process for setting the districts for state and federal races was that the data Colorado and states across the country need to begin redistricting might not arrive in time to make the new process work.