Northern Colorado Center for Investigative Reporting

Federal agents killed 6,421 wild animals at Denver International Airport last year and hazed away more than 130,000 in their quest to protect airplane passengers from wildlife strikes. Despite these efforts, the airport reported a record-high 878 wildlife strikes with planes last year.

State regulators say the legislature removed the public’s access to funeral home inspection reports last year in the same bill they passed to tighten regulations on the industry. This came in the wake of several scandals involving fake ashes and mishandled remains.

Despite saying unleaded fuel sales would begin in 2024, the airport has yet to start offering it, frustrating neighboring residents who have been calling for the transition for years.

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, however, some see the prospect of storing this spent fuel as an opportunity.

A decision on whether to dissolve the roundtable was postponed until May 2 to give two cities on the roundtable more time to get feedback from their community members. Some cities frustrated by a lack of progress are already heading for the exit door, and support for the group’s future appears to be tenuous.

The change to make a secret survey used at the state Capitol public comes months after a judge ordered lawmakers to stop using their previous secret ballot system to prioritize legislation because it violated Colorado’s open meetings law.

The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.

The measure would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically with each other by email or text message without the communications constituting a public meeting.

Lawmakers are set to propose new regulations for Colorado’s funeral homes after some recent shocking discoveries about the mishandling of people’s remains. Investigative reporter Scott Franz tells us more today on In The NoCo.

The State Controller’s Office said a software configuration issue was hiding spending data in the checkbook across all state agencies.