Colorado's prisons are understaffed and overcrowded, pushing inmates into county jails. The state's emergency plan is now active, but local leaders say it's only a temporary fix.

Senate Republicans confirmed William Kirkland among more than 100 Trump nominees along party lines — while Democrats, including Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, voted against it a week into the government shutdown.

Students going to and coming from school are especially vulnerable to accidents

Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.

Increase in gas prices due to a fire at a California refinery.

In a reversal, the herd could receive formal state protection. An earlier proposal sliced off some of their migration route.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

Over the summer, an executive order from President Trump called for the consolidation of federal wildfire programs "to the maximum degree practicable." The secretaries of Interior and Agriculture recently released their plans responding to that and other demands – and they've garnered praise and criticism.

History Colorado will host listening sessions for survivors of federal Indian boarding schools and descendants across the state. Two sessions will take place in Durango in October and November.