Oregon is first state to adopt automatic voter registration

Seventeen years after Oregon decided to become the first state to hold all elections with mail-in ballots, it took another pioneering step on Monday to broaden participation by automatically registering people to vote.

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Battle looms in legislature over minimum wage in Colorado

DENVER — A battle is looming over Colorado’s minimum wage, which right now is $8.23 per hour. 600,000 Coloradans earns less than $12 an hour. Some Democrats in the legislature say that’s not enough, so they have two ideas. Let local governments raise the minimum wage on their own, or Put it to a statewide […]

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CSU players: Selection committee favored teams from power conferences, with greater history

FORT COLLINS — After the bracket for the NCAA Tournament was revealed Sunday without Colorado State, popular opinion was that the Rams' exclusion had more to do with conference affiliation than actual resumes.

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Nome, Alaska, preparing to greet Iditarod winner

Nome and its residents are nearly ready for the biggest party of the year on Alaska's western coast. City crews, volunteers and Iditarod officials have spent the past few days preparing for the first musher to come off the frozen Bering Sea ice and mush the last few blocks of the thousand-mile race down Front Street. ''It's a lot of stuff that happens during the Iditarod, and it means a lot ...

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Skier visits are up despite dry January

Despite an unseasonably warm and dry January, skier visits at the 21 member resorts of Colorado Ski Country USA were up 3.7 percent in January and February compared with the same period last year, the trade association announced Monday.Melanie Mills, president and CEO of Colorado Ski Country USA, said in a statement that the steady pace of skier visits reinforces Colorado’s reputation as having ...

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CU men's basketball: Teammates support Booker's decision to not play in CBI

Social media can be cruel, and it hasn't been too kind to Colorado senior Askia Booker in the past couple of days.

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Routt County stepping up to category II would result in 2019 pay raises for elected officials

A bill sponsored by State Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, D-Steamboat Springs, which would clear the way for elected officials in Routt County to look forward to their first pay raises since 2007, will move on to the State Senate after passing the House by a vote of 63-2 Monday. House Bill 1256 would result in a $14,000 annual pay increase for most elected officials in Routt County over the next two ...

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