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What’s Working: Denver business leaders change focus to what’s best about living, working in the city coloradosun.com/2026/09/26/d…

What’s Working: Denver business leaders change focus to what’s best about living, working in the...

It’s a new ad campaign from business leaders who got tired of all the negativity. Plus: Denver rents 14% below pre-COVID expectations.

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Weld County approves $1.7B green energy project across thousands of acres of active ranchland coloradosun.com/2026/09/25/w…

Weld County approves $1.7B green energy project across thousands of acres of active ranchland

The Enyo Energy project will bring 2,200 acres of solar panels and 79 wind turbines to the Chalk Bluffs region

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Cash from feds will spark $1.2B electric transmission project in eastern Colorado coloradosun.com/2026/09/25/e…

Cash from feds will spark $1.2B electric transmission project in eastern Colorado

Most of the cost of the 28-mile project, intended to make the electricity supply more reliable, will be passed on to customers.

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Maverix Broadband founder says a paper trail proves the company did not misuse taxpayer funds coloradosun.com/2026/09/25/m…

Maverix Broadband founder says a paper trail proves the company did not misuse taxpayer funds

Colorado Broadband Office allegations this week — and the cancellation of a $100M federal grant — caught the Parker-based company off guard.

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Second lawsuit filed blaming southern Colorado electric co-op for starting Aspen Acres fire coloradosun.com/2026/09/24/s…

Another lawsuit filed blaming southern Colorado electric co-op for starting Aspen Acres fire

Seven Pueblo County residents say a piece of San Isabel Energy Association’s power line was found on the ground near the fire’s ignition point with signs of arcing

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What to do in Colorado this week: 3 mountain festivals and a soap box derby in Keenesburg coloradosun.com/2026/09/24/w…

What to do in Colorado this week: 3 mountain festivals and a soap box derby in Keenesburg

Plus: The Crested Butte Film Festival, the inaugural Songwriters Festival in Durango and the annual Smalltown Gathering in Salida

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Coal-burning Comanche 3 power plant back in service after a year of repairs coloradosun.com/2026/09/24/c…

Coal-burning Comanche 3 power plant back in service after a year of repairs

Shut down since August 2025, repairs to the problem-plagued plant in Pueblo could cost as much as $26 million, most covered by insurance.

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How a growing El Paso County regenerative agriculture operation turned bullish on … sheep coloradosun.com/2026/09/24/e…

How a growing El Paso County regenerative agriculture operation turned bullish on … sheep

Firefighter Will Vogl learned from drought-induced failure of his parents’ ranch. Now his own farm charts a new course.

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Case against ex-ICE detention center guard who shot Colorado protester moves ahead coloradosun.com/2026/09/23/c…

Case against ex-ICE detention center guard who shot Colorado protester moves ahead

A judge ruled that there was enough evidence to prosecute Brandon Booth, who told police he shot toward women after they talked about “race traitors,” threatened to find guards’ children.

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8th Congressional District race is essentially tied, poll shows, with warning signs for both Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel coloradosun.com/2026/09/23/g…

8th Congressional District race is essentially tied, poll shows, with warning signs for both Gabe...

The poll was conducted by a Republican firm on behalf of a conservative political nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors and is backing Evans, the district’s Republican incumbent

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This Colorado woman feeds dozens in a San Luis Valley food desert with one big garden coloradosun.com/2026/09/23/h…

An 81-year-old Colorado woman's big garden feeds dozens in a San Luis Valley food desert

Ginny Ducale is 81, spry like Peter Pan and able to feed her Crestone community with a very green thumb

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Health insurance in Colorado is poised for another big price jump in 2027 coloradosun.com/2026/09/23/h…

Colorado health insurance prices poised for another big jump in 2027

Health insurance prices for people who buy coverage on their own are set to increase by 10% statewide on average in Colorado in 2027.

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Denver judge says Children’s Hospital not in contempt in gender-affirming care case coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/c…

Children’s Hospital Colorado not in contempt in gender-affirming care case, Denver judge says

A Denver judge ruled that Children's Hospital Colorado complied with an order regarding gender-affirming care and is not in contempt of court.

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Boulder Valley School District will close five schools as enrollment declines coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/b…

Boulder Valley School District will close four schools as enrollment declines

The decision outraged parents, students, educators and community members, who held a rally Tuesday afternoon before the board vote.

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Evacuations underway at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport as law enforcement responds to “incident” coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/e…

Evacuations underway at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport as law enforcement responds to “incident”

Colorado 82 remains open in both directions, but travelers are being asked to avoid the airport as law enforcement responds to an "incident"

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Colorado’s first pup Gia — a 4-legged staple of Jared Polis’ term as governor — dies at 17 coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/j…

Colorado’s first pup Gia — a 4-legged staple of Jared Polis’ term as governor — dies at 17

Gia, a rescue dog, attended bill signings and news conferences, meetings with big-name politicians and members of the governor’s cabinet

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Some Colorado houses won’t burn, if planned right coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/c…

Some Colorado houses won’t burn — if planned and built right

A wildfire demonstration on two very different homes in a fire station training lot could show Colorado the way forward in mitigation.

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How is Colorado Springs growing but using less water? Hint: The lawns are changing. coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/c…

How is Colorado Springs growing but using less water? Hint: The lawns are changing.

As the city prepared for a drier future, residents replaced thirsty bluegrass with native plants and got creative to keep landscapes green

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How Nevada’s Colorado River lawsuit does, and doesn’t, impact Colorado coloradosun.com/2026/09/22/n…

How Nevada’s Colorado River lawsuit does, and doesn’t, impact Colorado

Nevada filed the Colorado River's most significant lawsuit in decades, and more could follow. Coloradans aren't directly affected, yet.

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Colorado Broadband Office rescinds more than $100M in federal awards to Maverix Broadband amid investigation coloradosun.com/2026/09/21/c…

Colorado Broadband Office rescinds more than $100M in federal awards to Maverix Broadband amid...

The bankrupt internet provider in Parker was paid $9M of the more than $125M in public funding awards for rural broadband service. Some work has been done, but $3.2M appears to be missing.

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