Colorado holds its Republican caucuses on Tuesday. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have focused their attention there recently. The state will also be a key battleground in the general election contest.

As the rancorous contest for the Republican presidential nomination spreads across the nation's heartland, the leading candidates have begun to turn off swing voters, a setback in the party's quest to unseat President Obama.

DENVER — A road into the piney woods can be fraught with consequences. That was the premise, more than a decade ago, behind a Clinton administration rule that restricted road building on millions of acres of national forests in the West.

DENVER — He grew up in Michigan and governed in far-away Massachusetts, but coming off his easy win Saturday in Nevada, Mitt Romney enters Colorado's Republican caucuses on Tuesday with the closest thing a politician can get to home-field advantage.

Disciplinary hearings for police officers accused of wrongdoing — and possibly even video evidence of their wrongdoing — would be closed to the public under a bill making its way through the Colorado legislature.

Ron Sena still hasn't found a job. He's the ex-con who worked for more than a decade, but was laid off and so learned no matter how long he'd been out, his felony record still hangs over his head.

A proposed initiative to legalize limited possession of marijuana in Colorado needs more signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Note to Republican presidential contenders: Colorado's political terrain is as rocky as its mountains. Once solidly Republican, the state turned just as solidly Democratic in the 2000s as the population swelled with people moving into the state.

A house ethics committee is set to meet today — in the fourth ethics probe in four years — to examine circumstances around a Mesa County lawmaker's traffic stop after a legislative happy hour.

Colorado Republicans will get their chance to weigh in on who should be the party's nominee for president when they gather in schools, churches and neighbors' homes for GOP caucuses Tuesday night.

Two weeks after cruising to the state house floor, a bill making nonprofit cemetery boards more transparent and accountable to plot-owners and their families has hit opposition from groups that might have to open their books.

An opponent of hydraulic fracturing south of Denver is leading an effort to have voters decide on two proposals that critics say would change the way Colorado has handled water rights since 1876.

Natural gas vehicles are not yet as common as more traditional uses of the fuel like gas-powered furnaces, stoves and water heaters.

After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

A blizzard that had pummeled northeastern Colorado on Friday moved across Nebraska and into southwestern Iowa on Saturday, causing dozens of accidents on highways as visibility was reduced to near-zero in some places.

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.