Nonpartisan staffers told lawmakers this month that the way they spent billions of dollars in one-time federal funds given to ...

On Monday, February 2, caregivers of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and those with medically ...

State forecasters Friday painted a bleak picture of Colorado’s economy, predicting that a weakening labor market and shrinking consumer spending could dig the state budget into a deeper financial hole ...

Colorado lawmakers are facing impossible choices this budget season. Fund education or health care? Invest in infrastructure or public safety? But there’s a budget-buster legislators rarely mention by ...

Gov. Jared Polis' budget director is sounding an alarm about the need for new prison facilities amid a growing inmate ...

State task force is examining new funding options, including the potential for new taxes or a long-term trust fund to fill ...

Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...

The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for additional prison beds, citing the department’s lack of a plan to address its ...

CheapInsurance.com mapped the impact of slowing gas tax revenue on Colorado's budget ...

Colorado lawmakers are once again preparing for a legislative session that will be clouded by a tight budget environment and economic uncertainty. Lawmakers who sit on the Joint Budget Committee were ...

A group of Colorado lawmakers want school districts to know the funding they’re getting from the state earlier. State finances will play heavily on the final picture.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis makes a point during a news conference Wednesday, July 7, 2021, to introduce the fifth and final $1-million winner in the state's vaccine lottery at the governor's mansion in ...