The Colorado Supreme Court recently determined the state’s private judges — retired jurists appointed to oversee civil cases that rarely get public scrutiny — can now make political contributions freely and without reserve, overruling a prohibition that had been in place for decades ...

Fortunately, at the Colorado county level, when county commissioners knowingly and intentionally violate state statute, the courts can intervene, even if it takes time and appeals ...

Four days after the Federal Heights police and fire chiefs were seemingly terminated from their positions, community members are speaking out against what they say has been a long history of retaliation against first responders in the community ...

A press release from the administration that called NPR’s coverage “trash” was one of a few rhetorical moves cited by Moss in his ruling that he said left “no doubt” that the funding-pull was not simply viewpoint discrimination toward public media or a reaction to stations’ failure to “live up to some yet-to-be-attained platonic ideal of ‘unbiased’ journalism.” ...

Small-scale newspapers, television channels and radio stations that report on community quirks, hometown happenings, and the inner workings of municipal and county governments will be celebrated on Thursday, otherwise known as Local News Day ...

She was fired from a Boulder newspaper for inventing quotations and misrepresenting the stories of sources she had interviewed about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In Arizona, she was convicted of forgery after authorities said she falsified documents as she sought housing. In Wyoming, she claimed to be a muckraking reporter with a Ph.D. who was also in law school ...

Allowing the $6.2 billion tie up of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. to proceed is bad for competition and bad for local journalism, lawyers for eight states and DirecTV argued in court as they asked for an antitrust case to proceed that would stop the megamerger.  ...

A Colorado community activist was convicted of doxxing a Denver police commander last week in a first-of-its-kind case that has fueled debate about whether the state’s online privacy laws violate free speech rights ...

A year after blocking the release of state records to federal immigration agents, a Denver judge has now denied Gov. Jared Polis’ effort to end the lawsuit at the center of the dispute ...

Two Ouray County commissioners publicly reprimanded their fellow commissioner after discovering she secretly recorded an executive session ...