Bente Birkeland
Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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Colorado has about 20 new laws taking effect today. -
Rep. Monica Duran, one of the state’s top Democratic legislators, is surrounded by conservatives at home. -
Gov. Polis and Colorado’s U.S. senators decried the Trump administration’s denial of emergency recovery funds for the state. -
Gov. Polis signed an executive order aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests along the front range. -
Most of Colorado’s independent voters distrust both major political parties and want Republicans and Democrats to be more moderate. -
President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban states from creating robust regulations around artificial intelligence is another potential roadblock for Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law. -
Colorado, like the rest of the country, is experiencing more, and worse, climate disasters, wreaking havoc on people’s homes and their homeowner’s insurance rates. -
Tina Peters’ fight against her 2024 conviction must first play out in state courts before a federal court can even consider that she be released on bail. -
Democratic State Sen. Julie Gonzales has launched a Democratic primary campaign for the U.S Senate. -
Colorado’s top election official said the state will not comply with a new request from the Trump administration.
