Nonpartisan staffers told lawmakers this month that the way they spent billions of dollars in one-time federal funds given to ...

Gov. Jared Polis' budget director is sounding an alarm about the need for new prison facilities amid a growing inmate ...

The General Assembly will have to make funding cuts and it also has no money available to spend on new programs.

Colorado lawmakers are facing impossible choices this budget season. Fund education or health care? Invest in infrastructure or public safety? But there’s a budget-buster legislators rarely mention by ...

Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...

Ethics complaints. Gov. Jared Polis’ final year. New leaders. A lawmaker who died in November. The legislature has a lot to navigate in 2026 beyond its policy agenda.

Legislators working on Colorado’s budget are considering an increase for daily per-person costs for private prisons. State ...

The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for ...

As Colorado lawmakers face an $850 million budget shortfall in the new legislative session, advocates for people experiencing ...

A corporate president advised me once there are two kinds of lawyers: “those who tell you why you can’t do things and those ...

Colorado lawmakers are once again preparing for a legislative session that will be clouded by a tight budget environment and economic uncertainty. Lawmakers who sit on the Joint Budget Committee were ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis makes a point during a news conference Wednesday, July 7, 2021, to introduce the fifth and final $1-million winner in the state's vaccine lottery at the governor's mansion in ...