Colorado News Connection

May is Wildfire Awareness Month, and state officials are encouraging Coloradans to get up to speed on prevention and emergency-exit strategies if evacuation notices are issued.

Durante el primer ano de pandemia global, los consumidores medicos en Colorado recibieron mas de un millon de servicios de atencion medica de bajo valor: en pruebas de diagnostico, examenes y tratamientos en los que el riesgo de dano supera cualquier posible beneficio para el paciente. 

During the first year of the global pandemic, medical consumers in Colorado received more than one million low-value healthcare services - diagnostic tests, screenings, and treatments where the risk of harm outweighs any likely benefit to the patient. 

Coloradans will have more protections against so-called surprise medical bills after the General Assembly passed House Bill 1284.

The Colorado General Assembly has passed legislation to fund wildlife road-crossing projects across the state.

A coalition of more than 60 environmental and community groups are calling on Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and other elected officials to act faster to avert the worst impacts of a warming planet.

Colorado residents in assisted-living facilities could soon have the same protections in place under federal law at nursing homes.

While working from home, it can be tempting to lounge on the couch while firing off emails. But health experts are urging folks to take a long-overdue look at their home office setup.

Smaller or marginal wells account for just six percent of the nation's oil and gas production, but are responsible for half of all methane pollution in the U.S.

Conservationists are planting trees on Earth Day to help mitigate the impacts of a warming planet.