All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2016 // Law enforcement officials in Kansas cannot stop and search motorists just for having out-of-state license plates from states that have legalized marijuana, a federal appeals court has ruled.The 10th Circuit Court of...
Aug 24 2016 // The July 28 hailstorm that hit Colorado Springs was the sixth-most damaging event in Colorado history.The Gazette reported that according to an insurance industry trade group the storm earned $352.8 million in claims for...
Aug 15 2016 // A hail storm that struck northern Colorado and Wyoming in July has caused at least $25 million in damage to insured private property.The Greeley Tribune reported insurance professionals have deemed the July 29 storm...
Jul 27 2016 // Broomfield, Colo.-based ICAT has teamed up with Neon to provide an additional $10 million of per-risk capacity to catastrophe-exposed commercial properties in the U.S. The partnership expands ICAT’s per-risk...
Jul 19 2016 // Firefighters are letting areas of a wildfire burn near Coaldale in southern Colorado because it is too dangerous to get into some wilderness areas, but they have managed to protect homes and contain 30 percent of the blaze...
Jul 13 2016 // Firefighters were expecting a wildfire burning near Coaldale to grow Wednesday in dry, windy weather but crews are working toward getting the blaze contained near the town between Canon City and Salida.However, the Hayden...
Jul 13 2016 // The oil and gas industry may not be to blame if northeastern Colorado tap water is so full of methane it can be set on fire, researchers say.Fewer than 5 percent of the region’s water wells that were checked for...
Jul 11 2016 // Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can’t use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.The result is something marijuana advocates and opponents...
Jul 6 2016 // The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $30 million to 23 state health departments over the next five years as part of the Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP). The program will...
Jul 1 2016 // Colorado State University edged up its seasonal Atlantic hurricane forecast to 15, three more than in an average year.The new prediction is that six of those storms will become hurricanes and two will grow into major...
Jun 29 2016 // A railroad crossing in southern Colorado where five family members, including three young girls, were killed when an Amtrak train slammed into their minivan had been targeted for safety improvements for years.The rural...
Jun 28 2016 // The city of Boulder, Colo. has agreed to pay $64,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former employee who says she was discriminated against after coming out as a lesbian. The Daily Camera reported that city officials on...
Jun 27 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed a consolidated group of lawsuits brought against the owner of the Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 70 others.Judge R. Brooke Jackson dismissed the lawsuits...
Jun 23 2016 // Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can’t use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.The result is something marijuana advocates and opponents...
Jun 20 2016 // For the second consecutive year, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has vetoed a bill that would have enacted a statewide ban on red-light traffic cameras. Hickenlooper said he agrees with lawmakers that photo enforcement...
Jun 16 2016 // A study of air pollution from western Colorado fracking wells found the highest rate of emissions came just after fracking was completed.The research released this week didn’t measure the effects on human health, but...
Jun 6 2016 // For the second consecutive year, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has vetoed a bill that would have enacted a statewide ban on red-light traffic cameras. Hickenlooper said he agrees with lawmakers that photo enforcement...
Jun 2 2016 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that avalanches are among the “inherent dangers of skiing” so ski resorts can’t be held liable for people killed by slides within their boundaries.The 5-2 ruling came...
Jun 2 2016 // The Atlantic should produce a near-normal 12 storms during the six-month hurricane season that officially begins Wednesday, while the U.S. coastline has a below-average chance of being struck by a major system, according...
May 19 2016 // The owners of a movie theater where 12 people were killed during a screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” are not liable for the mass shooting, a jury ruled on Thursday, in the first civil lawsuit...