As the Colorado River Basin faces its worst snowpack in decades, a massive buildout of water-hungry AI data centers in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and across the arid West threatens to accelerate agricultural water loss in a region that has struggled with scarcity for over a century.

With Tyson closures already cutting thousands of head per day and small processors booked over a year out, a walkout at the nation's largest beef plant could deepen a processing crisis that leaves ranchers with nowhere to go.

A Democrat lawmaker and a Republican former state senator agree that at-large commissioner elections in Colorado's largest counties lock out political minorities, while county commissioners and fiscal conservatives say the bill oversteps state authority.

A new bill backed by nearly every Democrat lawmaker would ask voters to let the state keep TABOR surplus revenue for K-12 education, but a shrinking surplus and two recent ballot defeats raise questions about both the measure's viability and its projected revenue.

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers opposes three bills that would strip business tax deductions and block federal tax relief, while backing two measures to repeal retail delivery fees and enforce state agency audits.

Representative Dan Woog and Senator Byron Pelton renew the push to eliminate the $0.28-per-delivery charge after last year\'s party-line defeat

CBP tells a federal judge its technology and staffing cannot handle the unprecedented volume of 53 million refund entries involving more than 330,000 importers, and proposes a 45-day timeline to build an automated system.