Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)

Colorado is seeing a late summer surge of COVID-19 as a new variant of the virus has emerged. It's an offshoot of Omicron.

The study by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health looked more closely at how children said they could obtain a loaded firearm without their parents’ permission. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter John Ingold and then read the Colorado Sun story at the link below.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. And in Colorado, a lot of methane is produced by decomposing food scraps at landfills. We explore why that matters – and how state regulators are hoping to rein in those emissions – on today’s In The NoCo.

There are more than 800 cases of measles in the U.S., and three of them are in Colorado. So how are health officials working to stop measles from spreading in our state? And what are they doing to increase lower vaccination rates in some communities? We’ll hear from a doctor working to prevent outbreaks in Colorado.

So-called "forever chemicals" have been found in 29 water systems across Colorado. Fixing the problem could be costly for rural communities.

About 8 million people have received the COVID-19 bivalent booster shot nationwide — less than 3% of the eligible U.S. population.

Citing declining COVID-19 hospitalizations as the omicron coronavirus variant wanes, Colorado on Thursday deactivated its crisis standards of care that enabled hospitals and emergency medical responders to prioritize the needs of the most sick and injured and allocate staff as needed to respond to the crisis.

In March 2021, three employees of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment accused high-level leaders in the Air Pollution Control Division of ignoring federal evaluation standards for some of the state’s major polluters, like oil and gas companies. The employees filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Colorado Newsline reporter Chase Woodruff recently looked into the inner workings of APCD.

Weekly vaccine administration has risen more than 20% since early July. We visit a mobile clinic in Greeley to find out what’s driving the increase.

Colorado’s public health department issued an order Wednesday that prevents paramedics from using ketamine to sedate people in situations like the one involving Elijah McClain. The change came just hours after Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1251, which he said in a statement is meant to “restore trust in law enforcement.”