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Gov. Polis extends ban on rental late fees for another month; renters with month-to-month or expiring leases now vulnerable to eviction

More than 4,100 skiers and snowboarders were transported to emergency rooms in ambulances or helicopters across 2018, 2019 and the first part of 2020, which is about 10 patients every day of the season.

New version of the virus appears to be more transmissible but not more deadly

A second case is suspected in another Colorado National Guard member, health officials said Wednesday. A state laboratory detected the cases after it began looking for signs of the variant after its spread was announced in England earlier this month, said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state's epidemiologist. 

A deadly pandemic was far from the only thing that left its mark on a tumultuous year in Colorado politics.

"Families really can't overcome these challenges on their own," said Sarah Hughes, vice president of research initiatives at the Colorado Children's Campaign. "They can't do it by working harder, by being more frugal. No amount of individual resourcefulness is going to change the situation that we find ourselves in right now."

About 120 black-footed ferrets, among the most endangered mammals in North America, were injected with an experimental COVID vaccine aimed at protecting the small, weasel-like creatures rescued from the brink of extinction four decades ago.

As hurricane force winds blew fire toward Grand Lake and Lake Granby, Northern Water upended its operations to save its water system.

38,600 people in the state have received their first doses

42,000 vaccine doses had been administered in the state as of Tuesday night