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Tapped: Douglas County looks to diversify water supply as population grows
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water —...
Ernest Luning
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Updated May 21, 2026
SOUTH DAKOTA Tribes sue to halt drilling SIOUX FALLS — Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in...
Tapped: Is water a problem for data centers in Colorado?
Deborah Grigsby
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor‘s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Kyla Pearce
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating...
Kyla Pearce
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating...
Tapped: Aurora cracks down on water use as reservoirs fall, runoff shrinks
Kyla Pearce
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Colorado River overallocation collides with record drought conditions
Nico Brambila
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores and conserves its water while...
Kyla Pearce
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating...
Tapped: Denver residents face hotter, costlier summer under new drought rules
Deborah Grigsby
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Golden tightens water rules as Clear Creek snowpack falters
Sage Kelley
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
The Denver Gazette
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water — while...
Tapped: As snowpack levels shrink, Jefferson County cities take divergent paths on water
Sage Kelley
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Parker makes strides toward renewable supply
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Sterling Ranch plans to harvest rainwater
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Castle Pines upgrading water treatment capacity for future need
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Castle Rock working to reduce per-capita water use
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: With growth tapped out, Highlands Ranch turns to cutting demand
Nicholas Fogleman
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Kyla Pearce
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Updated May 25, 2026
Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
The Denver Gazette
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water — while...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
The Denver Gazette
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Updated May 24, 2026
Tapped: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water — while...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
Sage Kelley
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Updated May 24, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water —...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
Sage Kelley
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Updated May 24, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water —...
Tapped: Built to stand alone, Westminster’s water system confronts historic dryness
Sage Kelley
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Updated May 24, 2026
Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water —...
Gazette, Centennial Institute cosponsoring Republican gubernatorial debate Tuesday
The Gazette
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Updated May 24, 2026
The Gazette and the Centennial Institute are cosponsoring a Republican gubernatorial debate Tuesday at Colorado Christian University, featuring candidates state Rep. Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor, and longtime GOP insider state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer. Candidates will field questions on...
Colorado Politics Calendar May 25-31
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated May 19, 2026
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Buchanan’s consideration by White House for FTC causes GOP ruckus | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated May 20, 2026
Forty-five years ago this week: While Republicans back in Colorado were fuming over the fact that Mary Estill Buchanan’s divisive campaign had impeded them from defeating Democrat U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, the former Colorado secretary of state was nonetheless certain she...
A mistaken commutation and an over-the-top reaction | SONDERMANN
By Eric Sondermann
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Updated May 21, 2026
It seemed an itch that Gov. Jared Polis just had to scratch. After months of hints and speculation, Polis put his signature on a commutation of the prison sentence of Colorado’s election-denying queen, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. True,...
Tina Peters thanks Polis for shortening her sentence, calls Colorado Democrats’ censure a ‘travesty’
Ernest Luning
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Updated May 22, 2026
Two days after the Colorado Democratic Party formally condemned Gov. Jared Polis over his decision last week to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence for tampering with election equipment, Peters heaped praise on the term-limited Democrat and slammed his party for...
Federal judge green-lights jury visit to Aurora detention center in forced-labor lawsuit
Michael Karlik
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Updated May 22, 2026
A federal judge granted a request on Thursday to have jurors visit the privately run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora as part of an upcoming civil trial over alleged forced labor practices. U.S. District Court Senior...
Federal judges’ responses vary to immigration authorities’ disregard of orders
Michael Karlik
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Updated May 22, 2026
Colorado’s U.S. District Court judges have responded in recent days to the government’s violations of, or unclear compliance with, their orders in immigration detention cases, resulting in directives to immediately free the petitioners. “I’m just struggling to understand how he...

