Schools, roads and PERA get a boost from the $28.9 billion state budget Gov. Hickenlooper signed today

The budget covers the 2018-19 fiscal year, which begins July 1.

Colorado’s $28.9 billion state budget passes conference

A six-member conference committee rejected more than a dozen changes adopted by the two chambers.

Colorado Senate approves $28.9 billion state budget

Lawmakers approved millions of dollars in new spending on a variety of pet projects and boosted funding to rural broadband, affordable housing and school security.

Denver tax proposal would raise $45 million per year for mental health, housing, addiction

They want local voters to decide whether to raise city sales taxes by 0.25 percentage points.

Colorado House sends $29 billion budget bill to Senate

The focus will be on how much transportation — long an underfunded priority — should receive.

Here’s how Colorado schools would spend an extra $100 million from the state

Legislators on the Joint Budget Committee unanimously decided this week to set aside $100 million to “buy down” the budget stabilization factor.

What Colorado’s booming economy might mean for the state education budget

Gov. John Hickenlooper wants to put an extra $200 million into education next year and another $100 million in the 2019-20 fiscal year.

How Denver supervised injection sites could help addicts live to fight another day

A pilot program would need authorization from the Colorado General Assembly and the Denver City Council. The process is likely to be contentious.

Gov. Hickenlooper signs $26.8 billion budget into law

The governor praised the efforts of a Legislature that is split along party lines to eliminate a projected $700 million deficit and deliver a balanced budget that is required by law.

Marijuana addiction is not just in your head, as explained by two doctors and David Foster Wallace

Plenty of people have continued to use even while saying that they should quit. That's the definition of substance-use disorder.

Proposed budget will hit Colorado’s rural hospitals the hardest

The Joint Budget Committee had little option but to cut the amount the state's hospitals receive under a federal matching grant program that supports their operations.

Gov. Hickenlooper: Colorado faces nearly $700M budget deficit

Lawmakers use the quarterly forecast to help craft a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Denver will let some opioid users out of jail earlier if they start drug treatment

Government agencies in Denver just announced a new strategy for treating drug addiction and reducing the number of people in jail.

A woman and her grandchild saw two bodies near Five Points yesterday. She wishes she had said something.

"We thought maybe he was tired. We had no idea that he had just fallen over dead."

Colorado might not collect enough money to cover the budget this year and probably will need to issue TABOR refunds next year

The governor's budget office predicts we'll be off by a little bit. The legislative economists think we'll be off by a bit more.