Barbara Kirkmeyer

Candidates sometimes simultaneously maintain campaign accounts for state and federal office, or state and municipal office, when their pursuit of those jobs overlaps. Technically, they are running for two positions at once. Practically, they are not, and state elections officials don’t treat it as a violation of the law.

Lawmakers rejected a request to add hundreds of new prison beds, saying the state must first address staffing shortages and parole backlogs.

The funds will likely be mostly spent on the primary given that whoever wins the Democratic faceoff will likely become governor in November.

Colorado Republicans are pushing a ballot measure to criminalize fentanyl possession of any amount.

Gov. Polis is asking lawmakers to slow spending on Medicaid and to privatize Pinnacol Assurance.

The midterms are a year away, but the money races are already going strong, as each party eyes control of Congress.

The state senator from Brighton ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2022. She sits on the legislature’s powerful Joint Budget Committee.

State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse shared their thoughts on immigration, DOGE, the economy and more in a live taping of the Purplish podcast in Denver earlier this week.

Severance taxes are what energy companies pay to the state for the oil, gas, coal, or other minerals they take out of the ground. Each year that adds up…

Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck emerged as the winner in Tuesday’s four-way primary election to become the Republican candidate in the 4th…