On the surface, a judge's decision to block tough provisions of Arizona's immigration law was a defeat for the state's Republican governor and a win for the Democratic Obama administration. But neither party is sure it will play out that way politically, either this fall or beyond.

Only a handful of coroner races are contested during a typical election cycle, but this year 20 of Colorado's 64 counties have battles for the job of managing death investigations on their ballots.

Surrounded by tribal leaders from across the nation, President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday designed to plug holes in a patchwork system of justice that critics say allows serious reservation crime to routinely go unpunished.

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava said his designs for the first phase of Denver International Airport's south terminal redevelopment will complement the airport's best-known architectural element, the white-tented roof.

In the lab department of Denver Health Medical Center is a conference room so covered in sticky notes that they could probably hold up the wall, should it come to that.

With its loose shingles and rusted sides, the listing water tank looks as timeworn as the model steam engine that chugs around the 12-foot-by-24-foot display.

Despite assertions earlier in the week that he would "solely target" Democratic opponent John Hickenlooper, former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo on Wednesday foreshadowed a possibly brutal campaign when he quickly took a shot at GOP candidate Scott McInnis.

A federal judge on Wed nesday blocked the most controversial elements of Arizona's new immigration law, thrilling the law's opponents, dismaying its advocates and setting the stage for more legal battles.

It's practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, however, about three-quarters of them are let go.

Colorado is one of 19 finalists in the second phase of the federal "Race to the Top" competition, and independent observers say the state has a good chance of being among the 10 to 15 winners, who will be announced in September.

With the rollout Tuesday of a scaled-down energy bill focused on offshore drilling, Senate Democrats have all but given up on passing comprehensive climate legislation this session and with it any major effort to address global warming.

Chemicals prevalent in everyday products may be partly to blame for the deaths of more than 1,000 ducks during the winters of 2007 and 2008, according to a study released Tuesday by federal wildlife officials.

A contractor and a building inspector have been indicted on homicide charges in connection with shoddy ventilation work that led to the 2008 carbon-monoxide poisoning of a Denver family at an Aspen-area vacation home.

Faced with the emergence of Tom Tancredo as a third-party contender who will likely split the GOP vote, dejected Colorado Republicans on Monday tried to come up with a realistic strategy to take back the Governor's Residence.

In the first 24 hours after the unauthorized release of more than 91,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan, a few things became clear to the officials, lawmakers and experts reading them:

E-470 is changing its license-plate tolling policies to become a "kinder, gentler" toll road, highway officials say.

A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.

Nine months after real estate developer Paul Tamburello bought the old Lehrer's greenhouse in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood with the dream of turning it into an urban farm, things don't look much different from the outside.

On the water, by a stage or meandering among booths Sunday at the 10th annual Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, there was no escaping the beat by the shores of Sloan's Lake.

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Buck called Tea Partyers questioning the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate "dumba---s" to a Democratic operative recording his permission.