He's battered and bruised, and he learned Ferris Bueller is painfully funny. Literally.

Hundreds of anti-tax activists gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to protest government spending and taxation.

Democrat John Hickenlooper leads Republican Scott McInnis by 11 percentage points in the race for Colorado governor in a survey released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling.

Colorado's unemployment rate rose fractionally in January, to 7.4 percent, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Wednesday.

Colorado lawmakers recently decided to impose an online sales tax, a move that is generating a battle in Denver and highlighting the pressure states face to find new revenues.

Planned Parenthood of the Rockies staff and supporters descended on the capitol today as part of an annual effort to lobby lawmakers.

Colorado's 8,419 public-school buildings need almost $18 billion worth of construction work, energy upgrades and overall maintenance, according to a statewide facilities assessment.

Members of Colorado Tea Party and 912 groups and the libertarian think tank Independence Institute attended a "grassroots session" and rally sponsored by Americans For Prosperity at the Capitol Wednesday.

The Colorado Senate gave initial approval Thursday to a bill requiring individual health insurance plans to cover maternity care and contraception, sparking objections from Republicans who said the mandate would make health care more costly

Persistently drunken drivers should face mandatory jail time in Colorado, a legislative committee agreed Monday.

Two new ballot initiatives could change the way Coloradans buy booze and pot.

Last summer, angry Coloradans stormed county clerk and recorders' offices and caused employees to seek police protection because they were so angry over the increases in vehicle registration fees and late-payment penalties stemming from the newly signed "FASTER" transportation-funding bill.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.