VAIL — An elected coroner in Colorado is stepping down after being charged with tampering with a body and losing his licenses to run a chain of funeral homes. Shannon Kent submitted his resignation Friday, and it was accepted by Lake County commissioners at a meeting Monday, the Vail Daily r…

DURANGO — Authorities have released the name of a woman who was killed in a rare bear attack in southwestern Colorado. The La Plata County coroner identified the victim Tuesday as 39-year-old Laney Malavolta, of Durango. Her family and boyfriend released a statement saying, “Laney’s soul wil…

Two police officers in Denver have been suspended without pay after city officials said they used excessive force during racial justice protests last year sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Officers Derek Streeter and Diego Archuleta were the first in the departmen…

The job opportunity of a lifetime starts this week in … Centennial, the south Denver suburb where organizers of the annual Antarctica recruiting event hope to attract people interested in a seasonal gig at the South Pole.  But you don’t need an advanced science degree to apply. Thursday’s ev…

Colorado lawmakers were already working on a measure this year to ensure law enforcement officers have enough training to properly interact with people who are developmentally delayed or have physical disabilities.  But in the wake of the violent arrest last year of a 73-year-old woman in Lo…

Morgan Wolfe woke the morning of April 12 to a headache pounding harder than any she had ever experienced. The room spun. She could hardly get out of bed. She had been excited to get the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine two weeks earlier, and the minor achiness she felt after that s…

An Eastern Plains deputy had twice used deadly force under questionable circumstances in the months before his involvement in the killing of an unarmed man during a routine traffic stop last year, public records show.  Documents obtained by the Colorado News Collaborative also reveal that th…

Colorado Democrats formally rolled out their massive transportation fee-implementation and spending bill on Tuesday with support from top business leaders and two Republicans, saying 2021 is the year to finally tackle the holy grail that is the state’s long standing infrastructure deficit.  …

Every weekend last year, hundreds of cars spilled from trailheads, lining forest roads for miles. Wait times stretched for hours just to get inside Forest Service welcome centers at Brainard Lake and Mount Evans. Wildfires scorched more than a quarter of the 1.5 million acre Arapaho and Roos…

By Patty Nieberg, The Associated Press/Report for America Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from using consumer information collected from outside sources such as social media and court and home ownership records to determine insurance rates. T…

History Colorado has debuted an online archive of 1,300 pages of original Ku Klux Klan membership records from 1924 through 1926, previously on public display at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver. History Colorado digitized the hate group’s ledgers, which include about 30,000 en…