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

The General Assembly will have to make funding cuts and it also has no money available to spend on new programs.

The Department of Corrections requested ongoing funding in the budget for 788 state prison beds to the tune of $2.4 million ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado public schools are facing a nearly $4 billion funding shortfall. At the same time, ...

The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for ...

They said will not bow to Trump's financial pressure tactics, even as the state faces a budget shortfall and the possibility of losing additional federal funding.

Colorado’s government has grown substantially over the past three decades despite voter-approved limits designed to restrain ...

() - Legislators working on Colorado’s budget are considering an increase for daily per-person costs for private prisons.

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers tasked with writing the state’s annual budget voiced concerns on Monday over proposals to curb Medicaid spending during a marathon, multi-hour hearing.

As Colorado lawmakers face an $850 million budget shortfall in the new legislative session, advocates for people experiencing ...

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 ...

hopeful meetings with potential supporters of Colorado Youth at Risk, the mentor program for troubled high-school kids that she runs in Denver. The frenzy of activity has been born of desperation. Ms.